Part Four - Study Questions with Answers

31. What is thought?
    Thought is spiritual energy.
32. How is it carried?
    By the law of vibration.
33. How is it given vitality?
    By the law of love.
34. How does it take form?
    By the law of growth.
35. What is the secret of its creative power?
    It is a spiritual activity.
36. How may we develop the faith, courage, and enthusiasm which will result in accomplishment?
    By a recognition of our spiritual nature.
37. What is the secret of Power?
    Service.
38. Why is this so?
    Because we get what we give.
39. What is the Silence?
    A physical stillness.
40. Of what value is it?
    It is the first step to self-control, self-mastery.

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22. The Universal can express through you as long as you have plans that help everyone, everyone's purposes; quiet the senses, seek inspiration, focus the mental activity on the within, dwell in the consciousness of your unity with Omnipotence. Still water runs deep; contemplate the multitudinous opportunities to which you have spiritual access by the Omnipresence of power.
23. Visualize the events, circumstances and conditions which these spiritual connections may assist in manifesting. Realize the fact that the essence and soul of all things is spiritual and that the spiritual is the real, because it is the life of all there is; when the spirit is there, the life is there; it is alive; it has started to exist.
24. These mental activities pertain to the world within, to the world of cause; and conditions and circumstances which result are the effect. It is thus that you become a creator. This is important work, and the higher, loftier, grander and more noble ideals which you can conceive, the more important the work will become.
25. Sufficient work and sufficient play and sufficient bodily activity of any kind produces conditions of mental interest and growth which makes it possible to do the more important work which results in a realization of conscious power. We should, therefore, seek the Silence frequently. Power comes through repose; it is in the Silence that we can be still, and when we are still, we can think, and thought is the secret of all attainment.
26. Thought is a mode of motion and is carried by the law of vibration the same as light or electricity. It is given vitality by the emotions through the law of love; it takes form and expression by the law of growth; it is a product of the spiritual I, hence its Divine, spiritual, and creative nature.
27. From this it is evident that in order to express power, abundance or any other constructive purpose, the emotions must be called upon to give feeling to the thought so that it will take form. How may this purpose be accomplished? This is the vital point; how may we develop the faith, the courage, the feeling, which will result in accomplishment?

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42. We live in a fathomless sea of plastic mind substance. This substance is ever alive and active. It is sensitive to the highest degree. It takes form according to the mental demand. Thought forms the mould or matrix from which the substance expresses.
43. Remember that it is in the application alone that the value consists, and that a practical understanding of this law will create abundance, wisdom, harmony and freedom, and certainly this is the greatest blessing from a material and social standpoint.
44. Now make the application: Select a room where you can be alone and peaceful; sit erect comfortably; let your thoughts roam where they will but be perfectly still for from fifteen minutes to half an hour; continue this for three or four days or for a week until you secure full control of your physical being.
45. Many will find this extremely easy; but it is absolutely essential to secure complete control of the body before you are ready to progress. Next week you will receive instructions for the next step; in the meantime you must have mastered this one.