Part Two - Introduction

Our blessings are largely due to accurate ideas and understandings of our true interests. The great task is to discover the laws of nature to which we are to adjust ourselves. Clear thinking and moral insight are, therefore, of incalculable value. All processes, even those of thought, rest on solid foundations.

The keener the sensibilities, the more acute the judgment, the more delicate the taste, the more refined the moral feelings, the more subtle the intelligence, the loftier the aspiration--the purer and more intense are the gratifications which existence yields. Hence it is that the study of the best that has been thought in the world gives supreme pleasure.

The powers, uses and possibilities of the mind under the new interpretations are incomparably more wonderful than the most extravagant accomplishment, or even dreams of material progress. Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power. This is the power which is being used by those who do believe in the virtue of wealth, and the beauty of self-affirmation.

The ability to receive and manifest this power depends upon the ability to recognize the Infinite Energy ever dwelling in people, constantly creating and recreating their bodies and minds, and ready at any moment to manifest through them in any needful manner. In exact proportion to the recognition of this truth will be the manifestation in the outer life of the individual.

Part two explains the method by which this is accomplished.

Part One - Study Questions with Answers

1. What is the world without in its relation to the world within?
   The world without is a reflection of the world within.
2. Upon what does all possession depend?
   All possession is based on consciousness.
3. How is the individual related to the objective world?
   The individual is related to the objective world by the objective mind; the brain is the organ of this mind.
4. How are they related to the Universal Mind?
   They are related to the Universal Mind by the subconscious mind; the Solar Plexus is the organ of this mind.
5. What is the Universal Mind?
   The Universal Mind is the life principle of every atom which is in existence.
6. How can the Individual act on the Universal?
   The ability of the individual to think is their ability to act upon the Universal and bring it into manifestation.
7. What is the result of this action and interaction?
   The result of this action and interaction is cause and effect; every thought is a cause and every condition an effect.
8. How are harmonious and desirable conditions secured?
   Harmonious and desirable conditions are obtained by right thinking.
9. What is the cause of all accord, harmony, abundance and freedom?
   Accord, harmony, abundance and freedom are the result of right thinking.
10. What is the source of all powers?
    The source of all power is the world within, the Universal Fountain of Supply, the Infinite Energy of which each individual is an outlet.

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35. It is the world within that makes the world without; it is therefore creative and everything which you find in your world without has been created by you in the world within.
36. This system will bring you into a realization of power which will be yours when you understand this relation between the world without and the world within. The world within is the cause, the world without the effect; to change the effect you must change the cause.
37. You will at once see that this is a radically new and different idea; change effects by working with the cause. To have harmony, we must create the cause, and this cause can be found only in the world within.
38. All growth is from within. This is evident in all nature. Every plant, every animal, every human is a living testimony to this great law, and the answer of the ages is in looking for strength and power from within.
39. The world within is the Universal fountain of supply, and the world without is the outlet to the stream. Our ability to receive depends upon our recognition of this Universal Fountain, this Infinite Energy of which each individual is an outlet, and so is one with every other individual.
40. Recognition is a mental process, mental action is therefore the interaction of the individual upon the Universal Mind, and as the Universal Mind is the intelligence which pervades all space and animates all living things, this mental action and reaction is the law of causation, and the principle of causation obtains only in the Universal Mind. It is a subjective process, and the results are seen in an infinite variety of conditions and experiences.
41. In order to express life there must be mind; everything exists only because of mind. Everything which exists is some manifestation of this one basic substance from which and by which all things have been created and are continually being recreated.