Part Seven - Study Questions with Answers

61. What is visualization?
    The process of making mental pictures.
62. What is the result of this method of thought?
    By holding the image or picture in mind, we can gradually but surely bring the thing nearer to us. We can be what we will to be.
63. What is Idealization?
    It is a process of visualizing or idealizing the plans which will eventually materialize in our objective world.
64. Why are clearness and accuracy necessary?
    Because seeing creates feeling and feeling creates being. First the mental, then the emotional, then the illimitable possibilities of achievement.
65. How are they obtained?
    Each repeated action renders the image more accurate than the former one.
66. How is the material for the construction of your mental image secured?
    By millions of mental workers. Brain cells they are called.
67. How are the necessary conditions for bringing about the materialization of your ideal in the objective world secured?
    By the Law of Attraction. The natural law by which all conditions and experiences are brought about.
68. What three steps are necessary in order to bring this law into operation?
    Earnest Desire, Confident Expectation, Firm Demand.
69. Why do some succeed?
    Because they concentrate on abundance, health and success. The law is operating perfectly; the things they love are coming upon them.
70. What is the only option?
    Concentrate on the ideals which you desire to see manifested in your life.

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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.

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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14. This then is the Temple of the living Infinite and the individual I is given control and upon their understanding of the mechanism which is within their control will the result depend.
15. Every thought sets the brain cells in action; at first the substance upon which the thought is directed might not respond, but if the thought is sufficiently refined and concentrated, the substance finally yields and expresses perfectly.
16. This influence of the mind can be exerted upon any part of the body, causing the creation of any desirable effect.
17. A perfect conception and understanding of the laws governing in the mental world will succeed in being of inestimable value in the transaction of business, as it develops the power of discernment and gives a clearer understanding and appreciation of facts.
18. The person who looks within will succeed in making use of the mighty forces which will eventually determine their course in life and so bring them into vibration with all that is best, strongest and most desirable.
19. Attention or concentration is probably; the most important essential in the development of mind culture. The possibilities of attention when properly directed are so startling that they would hardly appear credible to the uninitiated. The cultivation of attention is the distinguishing characteristic of every successful person, and is the very highest personal accomplishment which can be acquired.
20. The power of attention can be more readily understood by comparing it with a magnifying glass in which the rays of sunlight are focused; they possess no particular strength as long as the glass is moved about and the rays directed from one place to another; but let the glass be held perfectly still and let the rays be focused on one spot for any length of time, the effect will become immediately apparent.
21. So with the power of thought; focus this power through attention or concentration on any single purpose for any length of time and anything becomes possible.

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9. In the first place, there is the great mental world in which we live and move and have our being; this world is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent; it will respond to our desire in direct ratio to our purpose and faith; the purpose must be in accordance with the law of our being, that is, it must be creative or constructive; our faith must be strong enough to generate a current of sufficient strength to bring our purpose into manifestation. As thy faith is, so be it unto thee, bears the stamp of scientific test.
10. The effects which are produced in the world without are the result of the action and reaction of the individual upon the universal; that is the process which we call thinking; the brain is the organ through which this process is accomplished; think of the wonder of it all! Do you love music, flowers, literature, or are you inspired by the thought of ancient or modern genius? Remember, every beauty to which you respond must have its corresponding outline in your brain before you can appreciate it.
11. The brain can express every single virtue or principle in the storehouse of nature. The brain is an embryonic world, ready to develop at any time as necessity may arise. If you can comprehend that this is a scientific truth and one of the wonderful laws of nature, it will be easier for you to get an understanding of the mechanism by which these extraordinary results are being accomplished.
12. The nervous system has been compared to an electric circuit with its battery of cells in which force is originated, and its white matter to insulated wires by which the current is conveyed; it is through these channels that every impulse or desire is carried through the mechanism.
13. The spinal cord is the great motor and sensory pathway by which messages are conveyed to and from the brain; then, there is the blood supply plunging through the veins and arteries, renewing our energy and strength, the perfectly arranged structure upon which the entire physical body rests, and, finally, the delicate and beautiful skin, clothing the entire mechanism in a mantle of beauty.

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1. The Universal Mind is so wonderful that it is difficult to understand its utilitarian powers and possibilities and its unlimited producing effects.
2. We have found that this Mind is all intelligence and all substance. How, then, is it to be differentiated in form? How are we to secure the effect which we desire?
3. Ask any electrician what the effect of electricity will be and they will reply that Electricity is a form of motion and its effect will depend upon the mechanism to which it is attached. Upon this mechanism will depend whether we shall have heat, light, power, music or any of the other marvelous demonstration of power to which this vital energy has been harnessed.
4. What effect can be produced by thought? The reply is that thought is mind in motion (just as wind is air in motion), and its effect will depend entirely on the mechanism to which it is attached.
5. Here, then, is the secret of all mental power; it depends entirely on the mechanism which we attach.
6. What is this mechanism? You know something of the mechanism which has been invented by Edison, Bell, Marconi and other electrical wizards, by which place and space and time have become only figures of speech, but did you ever stop to think that the mechanism which has been given you for transforming the Universal, Omnipresent Potential Power was invented by a greater inventor than Edison?
7. We are accustomed to examining the mechanism of the implements which we use for tilling the soil, and we try to get an understanding of the mechanism of the automobile which we drive, and some us are interested in gaining absolute knowledge of the greatest piece of mechanism which as ever come into existence, the human brain.
8. Let us examine the wonders of this mechanism; perhaps we shall thereby get a better understanding of the various effects of which it is the cause.

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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11. Harmony in the world within results in optimism and affluence; affluence within results in affluence without.
12. The world without reflects the circumstances and the conditions of the consciousness within.
13. When we find wisdom in the world within, we shall have the understanding to discern the marvelous possibilities in this world within, and we shall be given the power to make these possibilities manifest in the world without.
14. As we become conscious of the wisdom in the world within, we mentally take possession of this wisdom, and by taking mental possession we come into actual possession of the power and wisdom necessary to bring into manifestation the essentials necessary for our most complete and harmonious development.
15. The world within is the practical world in which the people of power generate courage, hope, enthusiasm, confidence, trust and faith, by which they are given the fine intelligence to see the vision and the practical skill to make the vision real.
16. Life is an unfoldment. What comes to us in the world without is what we already possess in the world within.
17. All possession is based on consciousness. All gain is the result of an accumulative consciousness.

18. Mental efficiency is contingent upon harmony; accord means clarity; therefore, those who would acquire power must be in harmony with Natural Law.
19. We are related to the world without by the objective mind. The brain is the organ of this mind and the cerebro-spinal system of nerves puts us in conscious communication with every part of the body. This system of nerves responds to every sensation of light, heat, odor, sound and taste.
20. When this mind thinks correctly, when it understands the truth, when the thoughts sent through the cerebro-spinal nervous system to the body are constructive, these sensations are pleasant, harmonious.