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Collected in this omnibus edition are 'The Magic Word' by Robert Collier; 'The Path of Prosperity' by James Allen; 'The Power of Your Subconscious Mind' by Joseph Murphy; 'The Master Key System' by Charles F. Haanel; 'In Tune With The Infinite' by Ralph Waldo Trine; 'Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World' by William Walker Atkinson; 'The Science of Mind' by Ernest Holmes; 'The Creative Process in the Individual' by Thomas Troward; 'Attaining Your Desires' by Genevieve Behrend; and 'The Law, and Other Essays on Manifestation' by Neville Goddard.
Charles F. Haanel
Charles F. Haanel (1866–1949) used the concepts and methods found in The Master Key System to create a successful business career in St. Louis, Missouri, where he eventually founded one of the largest conglomerates of his time. He wrote several bestselling books focusing on his business technique. Besides The Master Key System, he also wrote Mental Chemistry and The New Psychology. Known as the “father of personal development,” Haanel’s commonsense wisdom has revolutionized conventional thought for almost one hundred years.
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Prosperity Super Pack #2 - Charles F. Haanel
Prosperity
Super Pack #2
The Magic Word
by Robert Collier
The Path of Prosperity
by James Allen
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
by Dr. Joseph Murphy
The Master Key System
by Charles F. Haanel
In Tune With The Infinite
by Ralph Waldo Trine
Thought Vibration
Or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World
by William Walker Atkinson
The Science of Mind
by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes
The Creative Process in the Individual
by Thomas Troward
Attaining Your Desires
by Genevieve Behrend
The Law
And Other Essays on Manifestation
by Neville Goddard
Sublime Books
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ISBN: 978-1-5154-0685-3
Table of Contents
The Sublime Super Pack eBook Series
The Magic Word
Chapter One: The Law of Increase
Chapter Two: In the Beginning
Chapter Three: Treasure Mapping for Supply
Chapter Four: Wanted: Rain!
Chapter Five: Catalysts of Power
Chapter Six: The First Commandment
Chapter Seven: The Three Laws of Life
Chapter Eight: A Prayer for Work
Chapter Nine: First Causes
Chapter Ten: Strong Desire Essential to Success
Chapter Eleven: Magnetic Power of Desire
Chapter Twelve: The Master Formula for Getting What You Want
Chapter Thirteen: Putting Power into Your Desire
The Path of Prosperity
Foreword
The Lesson of Evil
The World a Reflex of Mental States
The Way out of Undesirable Conditions
The Silent Power of Thought; Controlling and Directing One’s Forces
The Secret of Health, Success, and Power
The Secret of Abounding Happiness
The Realization of Prosperity
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
How This Book Can Work Miracles in Your Life
The Treasure House Within You
How Your Own Mind Works
The Miracle-Working Power of Your Subconscious
Mental Healings in Ancient Times
Mental Healings in Modern Times
Practical Techniques in Mental Healings
The Tendency of the Subconscious Is Lifeward
How to Get the Results You Want
How to Use the Power of Your Subconscious for Wealth
Your Right to Be Rich
Your Subconscious Mind as a Partner in Success
Scientists Use the Subconscious Mind
Your Subconscious and the Wonders of Sleep
Your Subconscious Mind and Marital Problems
Your Subconscious Mind and Your Happiness
Your Subconscious Mind and Harmonious Human Relations
How to Use Your Subconscious Mind for Forgiveness
How Your Subconscious Removes Mental Blocks
How to Use Your Subconscious Mind to Remove Fear
How to Stay Young in Spirit Forever
The Master Key System
Introduction
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
Part 11
Part 12
Part 13
Part 14
Part 15
Part 16
Part 17
Part 18
Part 19
Part 20
Part 21
Part 22
Part 23
Part 24
In Tune With The Infinite
Introduction
A Message From The Author
Prelude
The Supreme Fact Of The Universe
The Supreme Fact Of Human Life
Fullness Of Life — Bodily Health And Vigor
The Secret, Power And Effects Of Love
Wisdom And Interior Illumination
The Realization Of Perfect Peace
Coming Into Fullness Of Power
Plenty Of All Things—The Law Of Prosperity
How Men Have Become Prophets, Seers, Sages, And Saviors
The Basic Principle Of All Religions—The Universal Religion
Entering Now Into The Realization Of The Highest Riches
The Way
A Resolve For Today
Thought Vibration, or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World
The Universe Is Governed by Law
Thought Waves and their Process of Reproduction
A Talk About the Mind
Mind Building
The Secret of the Will
How to Become Immune to Injurious Thought Attraction
The Transmutation of Negative Thought
The Law of Mental Control
Asserting the Life-Force
Training the Habit-Mind
The Psychology of Emotion
Developing New Brain Cells
The Attractive Power — Desire Force
The Great Dynamic Forces
Claiming Your Own
Law, Not Chance
The Science of Mind
Peace Be Unto Thee, Stranger
Foreword
Yourself
Part I: The Evolution of Man’s Thought
Instinctive Man
Nature Waits on Man’s Self-Recognition
The First Great Discovery
The Inner Sense Awakens
The Great Question Why
The Greatest Discovery of All Time—Mind
The Brain Does Not Think
We Do Not See the Thinker
The Body Unconscious Without the Thinker
The Conscious and the Unconscious Thought
A New Basis of Thought
The Law of Mind
Unconscious Mind at Work
Another Great Discovery—Thought Reached Others
The Discovery of Race-Thought
A Universal Medium Which All Must Come to Believe In
Another Question Comes Up—Why Are People Poor?
Man Begins to Realize That His Conditions Are Controlled by Thought
Realizes That He Must Think Correctly
Part II: The Lessons
Lesson One
Lesson One: Introduction
Science
How Laws Are Discovered
Proof of Mind
Where Our Thoughts Go
Suggestion Becomes Memory
Mental Medium through All
Reading Thought
Mental Law
The Word of God as Law
Threefold Nature of God
Trinity of Being
Conscious Mind in God and Man
Unity
Worship of God
Many Gods
Belief in Duality—Its Results
Duality in Theology
Duality in Philosophy
Duality and Science
An Awakening
Philosophy Leads Man’s Thought
A Deep Inquiry
The Great Difficulty
The Voice of God in Creation
The Word of God
Spirit Knows Itself
Law, Servant of the Word
Forms of Spirit or Creation
Meaning of Creation
The Word Alone Is Conscious
The Thought of God
Eternal Creation
The Universe Is Alive
Conclusion
Footnotes
Lesson One: Metaphysical Meaning of Words Used in Universal Chart
Upper Section
Lesson One: Metaphysical Chart No. I.
Upper Section
Footnotes
Lesson One: The Nature of Being
Spirit
Soul
Two Ways of Reasoning
Body
The Changeless
Cause and Effect
Unity and Multiplicity
Immortality
Forms
Allness of Truth
Volition
Only One Mind
Individuality
Footnotes
Lesson One: Recapitulation
Lesson Two
Lesson Two: Introduction
The World Has Learned All It Can through Suffering
What Individuality Really Means
The Meaning of Freedom
Sin and Punishment. Righteousness and Reward
The Incarnation of Spirit
Different Viewpoints
The Lesson of Nature’s Laws
The Relation of Man to the Universe of Spirit
Man’s Experience
Nature Waits on Man
Mental and Spiritual Laws
God and Man
Man Reenacts the Nature of God
The Two Ways to Reason
Nothing Happens by Chance
Many Are Waking Up to the Facts
The Time Has Come to Know the Truth
A Wonderful Experiment
What Psychology Teaches about Man’s Nature
The Self-Knowing Mind
Man’s Unity with the Whole
Man a Center of God-Consciousness
Unity with Law
The Subjective Obeys the Objective
The Body
Last Stages of Matter
The Unity of All Body
The Formless and the Formed
Individuality Means Self-Choice
The Greatest Discovery Ever Made
A Complete Unity
Footnotes
Lesson Two: Metaphysical Meaning of Words Used in Individual Chart No. II-B
Upper Section
Middle Section
Lesson Two: Metaphysical Chart No. II-A.
Lesson Two: Metaphysical Chart No. II-B.
Footnotes
Lesson Two: The Nature of Man
Spirit
Soul
Body
Limitless Medium
Christ and Antichrist
Man Is Identified in Mind
Treatment
The Aim of Evolution
Methods of Treatment
Subjective Law
Thought and the Creative Medium
Each Is the Logical Result of His Own Thinking
A Law of Belief
We Are Dealing with Law
The Cycle of Necessity and Karmic Law
The Law of Action and Reaction
We Argue in Mind
Wrong Use of Mind
Subjective but Not Unconscious
How Habits Are Formed
Law Is Mind in Action
We Are Bound by Our Own Freedom
Oneness with All Law
Demonstration
Karmic Law
Thought Force
Choosing Thought
Inducing Thought
Place No Limit on Principle
Footnotes
Lesson Two: Recapitulation
Lesson Three
Lesson Three: Introduction
Healing
What We Understand about Healing
Thoughts Are Things
Lesson Three: Metaphysical Meaning of Words Used in Chart No. III
Lesson Three: Metaphysical Chart No. III.
Lesson Three: Mental Healing
Individuality
Man Reënacts God
Not Limited by Principle
Mental Treatment Is Real
Man Comes through Subjectivity
Born Perfect
Race-Suggestion
Disease Is Impersonal
How to Heal
Mind Is the Actor
Disease Is Not Always Due to Conscious Thought
We Deal with Ideas
Have No Doubts
Thinking in Treatment
Do Not Try to Go beyond Your Understanding
What a Practitioner Must Know
Healing Is Clear Thinking
Only One Law
No Sensation in Treatments
How to Remove Doubt
The Truth Demonstrates Itself
Disease Is Mental
The Medium of Healing
Depend on Principle
Definite Work in Healing
Repeating Treatments
Remove the Complex
Healing Pain
Headache
What Right Thought Does
How Habits Are Healed
The Seed of Thought
What Can Be Healed
Why People Get Tired
The Idea Must Take Form
Resolve Things into Thoughts
Healing Insanity
What a Practitioner Does
Back of the Appearance Is the Reality
Seeing Perfection
Healing Lung Trouble
We Do Not Send out Thoughts
Vision
Healing Constipation
Disease Not an Entity
Throat Trouble
Congestion
Paralysis
Growths
Treating Children
Power of the Word
No Age
Memory
Guidance in Treating
How to Heal
Remove Doubt
No Fear
Psycho-Analysis
Deal Only with Thoughts
Nervousness
Stammering
Argument in Treatment
Footnotes
Lesson Three: Recapitulation
Lesson Four
Lesson Four: Introduction
The Law Is Infinite
The Possibilities of the Law
Spirit and Mental Law
Demonstration, or Bringing Things to Pass
Our Part
Treatment
Medium between Man and His Manifestation
Footnotes
Lesson Four: The Control of Conditions
Lesson Four: Metaphysical Chart No. IV.
How Ideas Manifest as Things.
Law of Reflection
Attracting Friends
The Principle of Prosperity
We Deal with Absoluteness
Prayer Is Its Own Answer
If You Know
No Personal Responsibility
Helping an Inventor
Look Only at What You Want
Definite Plan
Attraction
How to Demonstrate a Home
Resist Not
Healing a Misunderstanding
Fate
Attraction of Personality
See Life Expressed
Look to the Ultimate
No Mistakes
Causes and Conditions
Perfect Action
Mental Equivalents
Treating for Activity
Receiving Information
No Failures
Opportunity
No Mistakes
Demonstration by Proof
Handling a Schoolroom
The Law of Correspondence
Footnotes
Lesson Four: Recapitulation
Footnotes
Lesson Five
Lesson Five: Introduction
True Mysticism and the Psychic Sense
What the Mystics Have Taught
No Ultimate Evil
Ultimate Salvation of All
Freedom from Burden
Unity of All
Realization of Individuality
Normalcy
The Great Light
What the Mystics Have Taught about the Individual
Instinct and Intuition
Illumination and Cosmic Consciousness
The Highest Practice
The Power of Jesus
Turning Within
Footnotes
Lesson Five: The Perfect Whole
Lesson Five: Metaphysical Chart No. V.
Individuality
Further Evolution
The Truth Is Known
The Answer Is in Man
God—Infinite Personality
Unity
Hold to the Good
The Infinite Is Personal to All
The Christ
Realization
Meditation
Footnotes
Lesson Six: The Law of Psychic
Phenomena: Introduction
Psychic Phenomena and Immortality
No Apologies
Lesson Six: Metaphysical Meanings of Words Used in Chart No. VI
Lesson Six: Metaphysical Chart No. VI.
Lesson Six: Psychic Phenomena
The Subjective Mind
Seat of Memory
Suggestion and Subjectivity
Subjective Communication
Subjective Mind and Inspiration
Mental Atmospheres
How to Create Personal Charm
The Atmosphere of Places
The Race-Mind
The Mind of History
Telepathy
Tuning in on Thought
Mental Pictures
Conditions Necessary for the Best Results
Deep Telepathic Messages
Reading the History of the Individual
Personal Readings
Streams of Consciousness
No Obstructions to Thought
Entering the Stream of Thought
The Vibration of a Book
Why Saints Have Seen Jesus
Many Mental Pictures
The Human Aura
Halo
Unpleasant Atmospheres
Habit
ManIA
Obsession
Personal Influence and Obsession
Obsession of Discarnate Spirits
General Theory of Obsession and Mental Influence
Insanity
The Psychic Power Must Be Controlled
Normal State
The Aim of Evolution
The State of Trance
Normal Psychic Capacities
Abnormal Psychic Powers
Clairvoyance
Psychometry
Clairaudience
Independent Voices
Apparitions
Ghosts and Phantasms of the Dead
Ghosts Sometimes Can Speak
Projecting the Mentality
Crystal Gazing
Black Magic
The Modern Curse
Automatic Writing
Independent Writing
Hudson’s Theory
Smelling Where There Is Nothing to Smell
Grasping Objects Without the Hand
Telekinetic Energy
Table Tipping
Rappings
Theory of Ectoplasm
Levitation
Interesting Thoughts
What Is the Cause?
Cause for Thought
Time Will Prove All Things
The Spirit of Prophecy
A Lesson in Subjectivity
Explanation
Summary
Lesson Six: Psychic Phenomena and Immortality
The Meaning of Immortality
Where Did Man Come from and Why?
Man Awakes with a Body
What Is the Body?
Matter
The Ether of Science
The Resurrection Body
Conclusive Facts
In What Mental State Do We Go out?
What Causes Psychic Manifestations?
Telepathy Does Not Explain Everything
Spirit Communication
Communication Must Be Mental
We Do Not Control Spirits
The Psychic Power Should Not Be Forced
Footnotes
Lesson Six: Recapitulation
Immortality
Part III: Special Articles
Absoluteness and Relativity
The Problem of Evil
The Meaning of the Fall
The Garden of Eden
Footnotes
Salvation and Grace
The Perfect Universe
Footnotes
Imagination and Will
Footnotes
How to Visualize
The Sequence of the Creative Order
Man’s Creative Power Marvelous
Concentration
The Mirror of the Subjective
Personality
Factors Necessary for a Dynamic Personality
Repression and Sublimation
Footnotes
The Atonement
Footnotes
The Personality of God
Jesus as a Saviour
Footnotes
Self-Existent Life
The Supreme Affirmation
Christ and Antichrist
Evolution
Part IV: DAILY Meditations for Self-Help and Healing
Bodily Perfection
Come, and Let Me Heal You
He Is Mighty within Me to Heal
I Do Not Inherit Disease
No Congestion
No False Growth
No Weariness
Perfect Healing
Perfect Vision
The All-Seeing Eye
The Healing of the Flesh
There Is No Pain
Completeness
Happiness and Completion
Here and Now
Majestic Calm
No Loss
Oh, for a Tongue to Express
O Soul of Mine, Look out and See
Seeing the Perfect
The Circle Is Complete
The Things That Are
Divine Companionship
A Song of Hope
Be Still and Know
Cast Aside All Doubt
Divine Companionship
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
Hope Cannot Die
I Am Not Alone
I Went to the Mountain
The Joy of the Soul
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom from Sin
Free from Sensitiveness
I Keep the Promise
Love Gleamms through the Mist
No Bondage
No Condemnation
No False Habit
No Hypnotism Nor False Suggestion
No Mistakes
There Are No Responsibilities
The Time Has Come
Within Thy Law Is Freedom
Harmony of Life
Beauty
Friendship of the Spirit and of Man
He Wills Me to Be
I Serve
I Shall Not Doubt Nor Fear
I Was Told to Live
Law
Love
Love Dissolves All Fear
My Affairs
My Business
My Profession
No Delays
No Misrepresentations
No Obstructions
No Over-Action Nor Inaction
One with Perfect Action
Peace, Poise and Power
Stillness and Receptivity
Thanksgiving and Praise
The Divine Promises Are Kept
The Inner Light
The Night Is Filled with Peace
The Seal of Approval
The Secret Way
The Shining Path
The Things I Need Come to Me
The Way Is Made Clear before Me
Immanent Power
As Love Enters, Fear Departs
He Will Keep Thee
Infinite Life Within
My Feet Shall Not Falter
No Harm Shall Befall Thee
Power to Live
The Circle of Love
The Circle of Protection
The Power within Blesses All
The Quick Answer
Inspiration
A Song of Joy
Born of Eternal Day
I Arise and Go Forth
Inspiration
The Dawn Has Come
I Am Complete in Thee
Presence of the All Good
A Marvelous Sense
Complete Confidence
The One Mind Is My Complete Refuge and Strength.
Drawing the Good
I Fear No Evil
I Have Known, Always
I Meet My Good
My Atmosphere
My Good Is Complete
My Own Shall Come to Me
My Own Shall Find Me
My Soul Reflects Thy Life
out of the Depths of Life
Sorrow Flees from Me
Substance and Supply
The Ever and the All
The House of Love
Spirit of God Within
Arise, My Spirit
Birthless and Deathless
Command My Soul
Despair Gives Way to Joy
Free Spirit within Me
Fullness of Light
The Power of the Word
I Control My Mental Household and Conquer All Fear and Doubt
My Word Comes Back to Me
My Word Shall Bear Fruit
Nothing Can Hinder
O Man, Speak Forth Thy Word
The Power of the Word
The Word of Power
The Unassailable Truth and the Irresistible Word
I Behold in Thee His Image
Unity
I See No Evil
I Shall Never Die
Love to the World
My Life Is One with God
No Misunderstandings
The Divine Plan for Me
The Personality of God
The Radiation of Life
Unity
Within Thee Is Fulness of Life
Glossary
The Call
The Creative Process in the Individual
Foreword
The Starting-Point
The Self-Contemplation of Spirit
The Divine Ideal
The Manifestation of the Life Principle
The Personal Factor
The Standard of Personality
Race Thought and New Thought
The Dénouement of the Creative Process
Conclusion
The Divine Offering
Ourselves In The Divine Offering
Footnotes
Attaining Your Desires
Foreword
Troward — Philosopher And Sage
Interpreting the Word
How to Get What You Want
How to Overcome Adverse Conditions
Strengthening Your Will
Making Your Subjective Mind Work for You
Hourly Helps
Putting Your Lessons into Practice
The Law, and Other Essays on Manifestation
The Law
Be What You Wish; Be What You Believe
By Imagination We Become
The Law of Assumption
Truth
At Your Command
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The Magic Word
By Robert Collier
CHAPTER ONE
THE LAW OF INCREASE
I am Success, though hungry, cold, ill-clad,
I wander for a while, I smile and say,
"It is but a time, I shall be glad
Tomorrow, for good fortune comes my way.
God is my Father, He has wealth untold,
His wealth is mine—health, happiness and gold."
—ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
In a pamphlet written by Don Blanding, he tells of a time during the trying years of the Great Depression, , when he found himself financially, mentally and physically broke.
He was suffering from insomnia and from a physical lethargy amounting almost to paralysis. Worst of all, he had a bad case of self-pity,
and he felt that the self-pity was fully justified.
He was staying at a small Art Colony (on credit), trying to rebuild his wrecked life and wretched body. Among those at the Colony was Mike, an Hawaiian boy. Mike seemed to be always cheerful. Mike seemed to be always prosperous. And, naturally, Blanding wondered why. For Mike, when he had known him before, had been blessed with few of this world’s goods.
So one day he asked Mike what good fairy had waved her wand over him and turned all that he touched into gold.
For answer, Mike pointed to a string of letters he had pasted over his bed— L-I-D-G-T-T-F-T-A-T-I-M.
Blanding read them, but could make no sense out of them. What are they, the ‘Open, Sesame’ to the Treasure Cave?
They have been the ‘Open, Sesame’ for me,
Mike told him, and went on to explain how they had helped him. It seems that Mike, too, had experienced his ups and downs, but in the course of one of his downs,
he had happened upon a teacher who showed him the power of PRAISE and THANKFULNESS.
There is an inherent law of mind,
says Charles Fillmore, that we INCREASE whatever we PRAISE. The whole of creation responds to praise, and is glad. Animal trainers pet and reward their charges with delicacies for acts of obedience; children glow with joy and gladness when they are praised. Even vegetation grows better for those who love it. We can praise our own ability, and the very brain cells will expand and increase in capacity and intelligence, when we speak words of encouragement and appreciation to them.
God gave you dominion over the earth. Everything is your servant, but remember it is said in the Scriptures that God brought every beast and fowl to Adam, to see what he would call them. You are like Adam in this, that you can give to everything and everybody with whom you come in contact the name you like. You can call them good or bad. And whatever you call them, that is what they will be—good servants or evil. You can praise or curse them, and as you do, so will they be to you.
There is one unfailing Law of Increase—Whatever is praised and blessed, MULTIPLIES!
Count your blessings and they increase. If you are in need of supply, start in now to praise every small piece of money that comes to you, blessing it as a symbol of God’s abundance and love. Salute the Divinity represented by it. Bless Him and name Him Infinite and Abundant Supply. You will be surprised how soon that small piece of money will increase to many pieces. Take God into your business. Bless your store, bless every one that works for you, each customer that comes in. Know that they represent the Divinity called Abundance, so bless them as such.
If you are working for someone else and want a better job or more pay, start by BLESSING and being THANKFUL for what you have. Bless the work you are doing, be thankful for every opportunity it gives you to acquire greater skill or ability or to serve others. Bless the money you earn, no matter how little it may be. Be so thankful to God for it that you can give a small Thank Offering
from it to someone in greater need than yourself.
Suppose the Boss does seem unappreciative and hard. Bless him just the same. Be thankful for the opportunity to SERVE faithfully, no matter how small the immediate reward may seem to be. Give your best, give it cheerfully, gladly, thankfully, and you will be amazed how quickly the INCREASE will come to you—not necessarily from your immediate boss, but from the Big Boss over all.
I remember reading a letter from a woman in the drought belt in which she said that they, unlike most of their neighbors, had an abundant supply of water, and excellent crops. When my husband plows a field,
she writes, "I ask God to bless each furrow. Each seed that goes into the seeder is blessed, and the realization held that it will produce abundantly according to His righteous law. Our neighbors marveled at the abundance of hay that we cut this year. The hay was sold before the third cutting was put up.
Each day, in the silence, I put the ranch ‘Lovingly in the hands of the Father.’ I ask God to bless everybody that comes in contact with the ranch.
Few realize the power of praise and blessing. Praise may be called the great liberator. You remember the story of Paul and Silas. They lay in jail bound with chains, but they did not despair. They rejoiced and sang hymns of praise, and lo, the very walls were shaken down and they were set free.
Praise always magnifies. When we praise God and then look about us and praise His invisible presence in all that we see, we find that the good is so magnified that much becomes evident that we ordinarily fail to see. Running through all of Jesus Christ’s acts as well as His teachings we find the glowing element of praise. When He looked at five loaves and two small fishes and realized that He had a multitude to feed, His first thought was a thought of praise. And looking up to heaven, he blessed.
Go back over the Old Testament and see how often you are adjured to Praise the Lord and be thankful, that THEN shall the earth yield her increase.
Probably no life chronicled in the Scriptures was more beset with trials and dangers than that of King David. And what was his remedy? What brought him through all tribulations to power and riches? Just read the Psalms of David and you will see.
Jehovah reigneth; let the earth rejoice;
Let the multitude of isles be glad.
Bless Jehovah, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless his holy name . . .
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
Who healeth all they diseases.
If anyone could tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection,
wrote William Law, he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you. For it is certain that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you thank and praise God for it, you turn it into a blessing. Could you therefore work miracles, you could not do more for yourself than by this thankful spirit; for it turns all that it touches into happiness.
How then can YOU increase your supply? How can you get more of riches and happiness and every good thing of life? In the same way as the Wise Men and the Prophets of old. In the same way that Jesus twice fed the multitudes. In the same way that He filled the disciples’ nets to overflowing with fish, after they had labored all night and caught nothing.
By EXPANDING what you have! And the way to expand is through love, through praise and thanksgiving— through saluting the Divinity in it, and naming it Infinite and Abundant Supply.
Throughout the Bible we are told—In everything by prayer and supplication WITH THANKSGIVING let your requests be made unto God.
Again and again the root of inspiration and attainment is stressed. Rejoice, be glad, praise, give thanks!
And that was what our Hawaiian boy had done. That was the secret of his prosperity and success. The Talisman he had pasted over his bed meant—Lord, I do give Thee thanks for the abundance that is mine.
Every time he looked upon it, he repeated those words of thankfulness. The happy ending lies in the fact that these words of praise and thanksgiving proved to be as potent a talisman for Don Blanding as they had for Mike, the Hawaiian.
Whose offereth praise, glorifieth Me,
sang the Psalmist of old. And it is as true today as it was thousands of years ago. Praise, thankfulness, understanding—these three supply the golden key to anything of good you may desire of life.
In Think What You Want
magazine, some time ago, H. W. Alexander told how praise helps. Sincere praise is money in your pocket,
he said.
It is a spiritual and moral uplift. It is a tonic to the giver and the receiver. It rebounds to both a thousand times. I know a company whose sales during the depression went from $2,600,000 a year to $8,000,000. Praise was the inspiration.
In a divorce court not so long ago was recorded the story of a man who from a laborer’s job climbed to the Presidency of his business. A friend asked him why he quit his almost lifetime companion, though she was well provided for. Said he, Well my wife of today appreciates my ability, tells me right along, wheras my childhood sweetheart knows my weaknesses and tells me about them. I like appreciation.
His income tax is on a $100,000 salary.
Little things count. Your secretary has a new dress, a new hat, a fashionably fluffy ruffle—tell her so. The file clerk finds your letters quickly—tell her so. The cop on the beat is sure to see the school boys are safely over with a wave of his hand. Tell him he is tops.
One of the finest persons who worked for me was an elderly servant woman. She had a tough time in life, poorly educated, used split infinitives, came early in the morning to clean the house. She often said to me as I left in the morning, Sure, you look good today. You’ve got a big job, you work hard, you’ll win.
She thought I was good, and when I went out I was good. Top executives who read this know very well the truth of what the chauffeur, maid, gardener—who gives them a cheery word of praise, means to them at market time, conference time, or directors’ time—it rings in their mind— oh, yes, they remember. You can’t fly too high.
And the mother who thinks her boy or girl is about right, aids them on as no one else can.
I have this belief—that big or little, praise does win friends, wins respect for yourself, wins you a monetary return, and it helps a Pullman porter, a housewife, an industrialist to bigger, better things. It costs you nothing but a smile—but do be sincere.
To the wives who may read this: You know your man. He can’t fool you. But be just as honest as you can, praise him, send him out to work with a smile, with praise, and you’ll wear sables—try it.
Like attracts like. Praise and appreciation bring back greater praise and appreciation to you. If you want health, happiness, in your life, if you are seeking riches and success, attune your thoughts to these. BLESS the circumstances that surround you. Bless and praise those who come in contact with you. Bless even the difficulties you meet, for by blessing them, you can change them from discordant conditions to favorable ones, you can speed up their rate of activity to where they will bring you good, instead of evil. It is only lack of RESPONSIVENESS to good that produces the lacks in your life. Good works on the plane of EXPANSION. Good revolves at a high rate of activity. You can key your activity to that same rate by an expectant, confident state of mind. You can bring all your surroundings and circumstances up to that same level by BLESSING them, PRAISING the good in them, saluting the DIVINITY in them.
In the pages that follow, we shall show you how the practice of blessing and praising all things has brought good to all who have tried it, how you can use these same methods to attract every good thing you may desire.
Into whatsoever house ye enter, first say—Peace be to this house!
CHAPTER TWO
IN THE BEGINNING
For life is the mirror of king and slave,
‘Tis just what we are and do;
Then give to the world the best you have,
And the best will come back to you.
We often speak of psychology and metaphysics as new sciences, and think that the study of these began within the last half-century. Yet if you refer to the very first book of the Bible, you find more profound examples of applied psychology than in any textbook of today.
Take the story of Jacob as an instance. You remember how Jacob agreed to serve Laban seven years for the hand of Rachel in marriage. And how, through the guile of his father-in-law, Jacob had to serve a second seven years. Even then, when he would have gone back to his own country, Laban begged him to tarry yet a while longer, and agreed to pay Jacob as wages all the speckled and spotted cattle and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the speckled and spotted among the goats.
Since Laban first removed from the herds all cattle of this kind, the chances of Jacob’s getting rich on the speckled offspring of solid-colored cattle seemed poor indeed.
But Jacob evidently knew his Scriptures, and the idea we think so new, that first comes the word
(or mental image), then the physical manifestation, was in his mind even when he made the bargain.
For what did he do?
And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them unto Laban’s cattle.
As it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters that they might conceive among the rods.
But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
You have heard of the English cuckoo. Too lazy to rear and care for its own young, it goes to the nests of other birds when they are off seeking food, notes the markings on their eggs, then comes back later and lays in their nest eggs of those same exact markings!
Various saints of the middle ages are said to have had markings on their hands, feet and sides similar to those on the crucified Saviour, acquired from constant contemplation of His image. And only recently I read of an adopted child, which was reported to have developed markings similar in all respects to those of the real son of its foster-parents, although the son had died some months before the adopted child was born. The parents were satisfied it was a case of reincarnation, but it seemed to me merely a materialization in the foster-child of the images in the mother’s mind. She had grieved inexpressibly over her loss. She had adopted the waif to try to fill the void left by her own little boy. And striving to see in his every action some reminder of her lost one, those images so strongly held in her mind actually expressed themselves in the body of her foster-child.
It all comes back to that first line of the first chapter of the Gospel of St. John—In the beginning was the Word.
For what is a Word
? A mental image, is it not? Before an architect can build a house, he must have a mental image of what he is to build. Before you can accomplish anything, you must have a clear mental image of what it is you want to do. Turn to the Scriptural account of the creation of the world. What is the outstanding fact you find there?
IN EVERY THING GOD CREATED, THE "WORD CAME FIRST—THEN THE MATERIAL FORM!
Just listen: And God said, Let there be light... And God said, Let there be a firmament . . . And God said, Let us make man ...
First the word,
then the material form. Scientists tell us that words denote ideas, mental concepts—that you can always judge how far a race has advanced in the mental scale by the number of words it uses. Its vocabulary is the measure of its ideas. Few words—few ideas, few mental images.
Therefore, when God said—Let the earth bring forth grass,
He had in mind a clear mental image of what grass was like. In other words, He had already formed the mold. As the Scriptures put it—"The Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew." He made the mental image, the mold. It needed then only to draw upon the energy about Him to fill that mold and give it material form.
And that is all you, too, need to do to give your word of power material form—first make the mental image, the mold, then pour into it the elements necessary to make that image manifest for all to see.
What do you want first?—Health—Happiness? Riches?
For perfect health, begin by taking the life out of every distorted image of sickness or imperfection. Charge those nerve centers of yours to withdraw their supporting hands, and let your image of disease collapse like the pricked bubble it is.
THEN IMAGE THE PERFECT MOLD OF WHATEVER
ORGAN HAS BEEN DISEASED.
Image the perfect mold of it so vividly that you can clearly see it in your mind’s eye, then charge The God in You to reach out with its millions of hands for all the elements it needs to make that perfect image manifest.
First the word (the mental image), then the creation. But the creation will never become manifest without faith. So when you have made your image, when you have set The God in You to work pouring into it the elements it needs for life, believe that you receive!
See with the eyes of your mind that perfect organ functioning as it was meant to, and thank God for it!
For riches, the same principle holds true. Take your life out of every image of debt, of lack, of unfulfilled obligation. The God in you is a God of plenty. He cannot owe money. He cannot be limited. There are no circumstances powerful enough to force Him to live in poverty or want.
Yet He, remember, is devoted entirely to your advancement. So how can you be tied down by debt or limitation of any kind?
How? Because YOU have insisted upon it. Instead of a God of plenty, you have worshiped one of want. Instead of reaching out for what you needed, you have tied the hands of The God in You and tried to do their work with the paltry powers of your material hands.
Unloose The God in You! Give Him a job and set Him to work. Make your mental image of the great business or other service you long for, then set The God in You to work bringing to you every element you need to make that image real. And don’t wait until you receive the whole of it, but as fast as any element becomes manifest, USE it!
If you have only 10-cents, USE it to start your great idea. If you have only the idea, START it, even though you can take only the first step. First the word, remember, then the creation. And there can be no creation without faith.
Show your faith by using each element as fast as it makes itself manifest, even though there be no sign that any other element is following, and before you know it, your whole structure will be complete.
Have you ever read Genevieve Behrend’s account of how she got $20,000, when, from all material points of view, her chances of ever seeing that amount of money were just about nil?
Every night before going to sleep,
she writes, in YOUR INVISIBLE POWER:
I made a mental picture of the desired $20,000 which seemed necessary to go and study with Troward. Twenty imaginary $1,000 bills were counted over each night in my bedroom, and then, with the idea of more emphatically impressing my mind with the fact that this twenty thousand dollars was for the purpose of going to England, and studying with Troward, I wrote out my picture, saw myself buying my steamer ticket, walking up and down the ship’s deck from New York to London, and finally saw myself accepted as Troward’s pupil. This process was repeated every morning and every evening, always impressing more and more fully upon my mind Troward’s memorized statement: My mind is a center of Divine operations.
I endeavored to keep this statement in the back part of my consciousness all the time, with no thought in mind of how the money might be obtained. Probably the reason why there was no thought of the avenues through which the money might reach me was because I could not possibly imagine where the $20,000 would come from. So I simply held my thought steady and let the power of attraction find its own way and means.
One day while walking on the street, taking deep breathing exercises, the thought came: My mind is surely a center of Divine operation. If God fills all space, then God must be in my mind also; if I want this money to study with Troward that I may know the truth of Life, then both the money and the truth must be mine, though I am unable to feel or see the physical manifestations of either. Still,
I declared, it must be mine.
While these reflections were going on in my mind, there seemed to come up from within me the thought: I AM all the substance there is.
Then, from another channel in my brain the answer seemed to come, Of course, that’s it; everything must have its beginning in mind. The Idea must contain within itself the only one and primary substance there is, and this means money as well as everything else.
My mind accepted this idea, and immediately all the tension of mind and body was relaxed. There was a feeling of absolute certainty of being in touch with all the power Life has to give. All thought of money, teacher, or even my own personality, vanished in the great wave of joy which swept over my entire being. I walked on and on, with this feeling of joy steadily increasing and expanding until everything about me seemed aglow with resplendent light. Every person I passed appeared illuminated as I was. All consciousness of personality had disappeared, and in its place there came that great and almost overwhelming sense of joy and contentment.
That night when I made my picture of the twenty thousand dollars it was with an entirely changed aspect. On previous occasions, when making my mental picture, I had felt that I was waking up something within myself. This time there was no sensation of effort. I simply counted over the twenty thousand dollars. Then, in a most unexpected manner, from a source of which I had no consciousness at the time, there seemed to open a possible avenue through which the money might reach me. Just as soon as there appeared a circumstance which indicated the direction through which the twenty thousand dollars might come, I not only made a supreme effort to regard the indicated direction calmly as the first sprout of the seed I had sown in the absolute, but left no stone unturned to follow up that direction, thereby fulfilling my part. By so doing, one circumstance seemed naturally to lead to another, until, step by step, my desired twenty thousand dollars was secured.
For happiness, the method is no different. Your God is a God of love, and real love can know no unhappiness, for love gets its happiness from giving.
There are laws to interfere with almost every other activity of humanity, but none to keep you from giving as much as you like. An unselfish giving results in getting, just as surely as planting results in harvesting. Give with no thought of reward but the good of the one you are helping, and good is bound to flow back to you.
Love begets love, you know, so take your life out of every thought of enmity, of repining, of unhappiness. In place of these, see yourself in your mind’s eye giving every manner of happiness to all whom you would have love you. Image that in your mind’s eye, then set The God in You to work bringing you opportunities to make all these loved ones happier. And as fast as each opportunity presents itself, USE it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it! No matter if it be merely the chance to say a pleasant word, to give a kindly smile, to bring a happy thought, use it!
And in the using, you will find that doubly great happiness has come to you.
Each of us is a miniature sun, his circumstances and surroundings his solar system. If debts and disease and troubles form part of your system, what is the remedy? Let go of them, of course! If you want new planets of riches and youth and happiness, how can you get them? In the same way the sun does, and only in that way—by throwing off from yourself.
Remember this: Nothing can come into your solar system except from you or through you. If it comes from outside, it is not yours and has no power over you until you take hold of it mentally and accept it as yours. If you don’t want it, you can refuse to accept it, refuse to take hold of it, refuse to believe in its reality—then put in the place it seems to occupy, the perfect condition of your own imaging.
If there is something lacking in your solar system, you have only to speak the word
—create the mental image, then hold to that image in serene faith until The God in You has filled it with those elements that make it visible to all.
It is your own fault when you allow yourself to become the victim of personal impotence or of undesirable external situations. As Emerson put it—Nothing external to you has any power over you.
You fear these negative seemings simply because you BELIEVE in them, when all the time it is only that BELIEF that gives them power and authority.
Remember, YOU are the central sun of your own solar system. YOU have dominion over everything within that system. YOU can say what shall enter, what shall stay there. And you have infinite attractive power to draw to you anything of good you may desire. Nothing stands between you and your fondest desires but lack of understanding of or faith in this power of attraction.
But once you send out the desire, you must have perfect faith in the result. You cannot accomplish anything by expressing a desire and then spending your time fearing and worrying lest you will not find the work you seek, or not have the money in time to pay your bills, or that some other evil thing will happen to prevent good from coming to you. The law of attraction cannot bring both good and evil at the same time. It must be one or the other. And it is up to YOU to decide which it shall be.
After any object or purpose is clearly held in thought,
says Lilian Whiting, its precipitation in tangible and visible form is merely a question of time. Columbus saw in vision a path through trackless waters around the world. The vision always precedes and itself determines the realization.
Dare you to say—Every day in every way I am getting richer and richer
? If you dare—and will follow up the word with the mental image of yourself HAVING all the riches you desire—Spirit substance will make your word manifest and show you the way to riches.
You were designed by the Father to be master of your fate and captain of your soul. If you are not exercising that mastery, it is because you are lying down on the job. Instead of mastering your thoughts and mental images, you are letting them bow down before mere things.
No thing can make you unhappy if you "will exercise your divine power of love and blessings towards it. Everything is good in its essence, and that good essence will respond to your call of blessing, and its good will come forth to meet you.
The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky—
No higher than the soul is high;
The heart can push the sea and land
Farther away on either hand;
The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the Face of God shine through.
CHAPTER THREE
TREASURE MAPPING FOR SUPPLY
So many people have won to success and happiness by making Treasure Maps
to more easily visualize the things they wanted, that Nautilus
magazine recently ran a prize competition for the best article showing how a Treasure Map
had helped to bring about one’s heart’s desire. Caroline J. Drake won the contest.
I had been bookkeeper,
she wrote, "in a large department store for seven years when the manager’s niece, whose husband had just died, was put in my place.
I felt stunned. My husband had died ten years previously, leaving a little home and some insurance. But sickness and hospital bills had long since taken both home and money. I had supported the family for eight years and kept the three children in school, but had not been able to save any money. The eldest child, a boy, had just finished high school but as yet had found nothing to do to help along.
Day after day I looked for work of any kind to do which might pay rent and give us a living. I was thirty-five years old, strong, capable and willing; but there was absolutely no place for me. For the first time in my life I was afraid of the future. The thought that we might have to go on relief appalled me.
Thus three months passed. I was behind two months with the rent when the landlord told me I would have to move. I asked him to give me a few days longer in which to try and find work. This he agreed to do.
The next morning I started out again on my rounds. In passing a magazine stand I stopped and glanced over the papers and magazines. It must have been the answer to my many prayers that led me to pick up the copy of a magazine which stared me in the face. Idly I opened it and glanced at the table of contents. My mind was in such a turmoil that I was barely conscious of the words which my eyes saw.
Suddenly my eye was caught by a title about ‘treasure-mapping’ for success and supply. Something impelled me to buy a copy of the magazine, which proved to be the turning point in our lives.
Instead of looking for work, I went home. Still under the influence of that Something
(which I did not then understand) I began to read the magazine. Strange and unreal as it then seemed, still I did not doubt. I read each article eagerly and in its order. When I came to the article about treasure-mapping to bring success and supply, something about the idea seemed to hold me in its grip. As a child I had always loved games, and this idea of making a treasure-map reawakened that old desire.
I read the article several times. Then, with a bunch of papers which I hunted up, I set to work to make my treasure-map of success and supply. So many things came into my mind to put on that treasure-map! First, there was the little cottage at the edge of town. Then there was a little dress and millinery shop which I had always longed for. Then, of course, a car. And in that cottage would be a piano for the girls; a yard in the back where we could work among the flowers of an evening or a morning. My enthusiasm grew by leaps and bounds. From magazines and papers I cut pictures and words and sentences—all connected with the idea of success and abundance.
HOW I MADE THE
TREASURE-MAP
Next I found a large sheet of heavy white paper and began building that map. In the center I pasted a picture of a lovely little cottage with wide porches and trees and shrubbery around it. In one corner of the map I put a picture of a little storeroom and underneath I pasted the words, Betty’s Style Shop.
Close to this I pasted pictures of a few very stylish dresses and hats.
At different places on the map I placed sentiments and mottoes—all carrying out the idea of success, abundance, happiness and harmony.
I do not know how long I worked on that treasure-map which was to be the means of attracting into our lives the things which we had need of and desired. I could already feel myself living in that cottage and working in the little dress shop. Never had I felt so completely fascinated and thrilled with an idea as with that treasure-map and what I was sure it would bring us. I tacked the map on the wall of my bedroom, right in front of my bed, so that the first thing I saw in the morning and the last thing at night would be that treasure-map of my desires.
Every night and morning I would go over every detail of that map until it fairly seemed to become a part of my very being. It became so clear that I could call it instantly to mind at any moment in the day. Then in my Silence period I would see myself and the children going through the rooms of the cottage, laughing and talking, arranging the furniture and curtains. I would picture my daughters at the piano singing and playing; I would see my son sitting in the library with books and papers all around him. Then I would picture myself walking about my shop, proud and happy; people coming in and going out. I would see them buying the lovely hats and dresses, paying me for them and going out smiling.
During all this time, I was learning more and more of the power of the mind to draw to us the things and conditions like unto our thoughts. I understood that this treasure-map was but the means of impressing upon my subconscious mind the pattern from which to build the conditions of success and harmony into our lives. Always, after each of my Silence periods, I would lovingly thank God that the abundance and harmony and love were already ours. I believed that I had received; for mentally living in the cottage and working in the shop was to me the certain fact that I would take possession of them in the material world just as in the mental.
When the children found out what I was doing, they entered heartily into the spirit of the game and each of them soon had a treasure-map of his own.
It was not many weeks before things began to happen. One day I met an old friend of my husband’s and he told me that he and his wife were going west for several months and asked if we would come out and take care of their house for the rent. A week later we were settled in that cottage, which was almost the very picture of the one I had on my treasure-map. A little later my son was offered work evenings and Saturdays in an engineering office, which proved the means of his entering college that fall.
We had been in the cottage nearly two months when I saw an advertisement in the local paper for a woman to take charge of a lady’s dress shop. I answered the ad and found that the owner was having to give up the shop for several months, perhaps permanently, on account of her health. Arrangements were quickly made so that I was to run the business and share half the expenses and the profits.
Within six months after we started treasure-mapping for supply, we had accomplished practically everything that map called for. When the owner of the cottage came back several months later, he made it possible for us to buy the place and we are still here.
The business, too, is mine now. The lady decided not to come back, so I bought the business, paying her so much a month. It is a much larger and more thriving business now—thanks to the understanding of the power of thought which I gained through my study and practice.
In another article in Nautilus,
Helen M. Kitchel told how she used a Treasure Map
to sell her property. She pasted an attractive picture of her house on a large sheet of paper, put a description of it underneath and then surrounded picture and description with such mottoes as— Love, the Divine Magnet, attracts all that is good
—and others of a similar nature. She hung her map where she could see and study it several times a day, and repeated some of the affirmations or mottoes whenever the thought of making a sale occurred to her.
She also started a little private letter box which she called God’s Box
and in it, whenever the thought occurred to her, she placed a letter written to God telling of her needs and desires. Then each month she went over the letters, taking out and giving thanks for those that had been answered.
Within a year her house was sold, on the very plan she herself had outlined in one of her Letters to God,
on the exact basis and for the exact price she had asked in that letter.
Another method is to Talk with God.
Go somewhere where you can be alone and undisturbed for a little while, and talk aloud to God exactly as you would to a loving and understanding Father. Tell Him your needs. Tell Him your ambitions and desires. Describe in detail just what you want. Then thank Him just as you would an earthly father with whom you had had a similar talk and "who had promised you the things you asked for. You will be amazed at the result of such sincere talks.
My word shall not come back to me void, but shall accomplish that whereunto it was sent.
Whatever you can visualize—and BELIEVE in—you can accomplish. Whatever you can see as yours in your mind’s eye, you can get. In the beginning was the Word.
In the beginning is the mental image.
Corinne Updegraff Wells had an article in her little magazine Through Rose Colored Glasses
that illustrates the power of visualizing your ambitions and desires. Many years ago,
she says, "a young girl who lived in a New York tenement was employed by a fashionable Fifth Avenue modiste to run errands, match samples and pull basting threads.
Annie loved her job. From an environment of poverty she had become suddenly and miraculously an inhabitant of an amazing new world of beauty, wealth and fashion. It was thrilling to see lovely ladies arrive in fine carriages, to watch the social elite preen before Madam’s big gold framed mirrors.
The little errand girl, in her starched gingham, soon became filled with desire and fired with ambition. She began imagining herself as head of the establishment instead of its most lowly employee. Whenever she passed before mirrors she smiled at a secret reflection she saw of herself, older and more beautiful, a person of charm and importance.
Of course, nobody even suspected the secret existence of this make-believe person. Hugging her precious secret, Annie smiled confidently at that dazzling reflection in the mirror and began playing an exciting game, I’ll pretend I’m already Madam. I’ll be polite and look my best and have grand manners and learn something new each day. I’ll work as hard and take as much interest as though the shop were really and truly mine.
Soon fashionable ladies began whispering to Madam: Annie’s the smartest girl you’ve ever had!
Madam herself began to smile and say: Annie, you may fold Mrs. Vandergilt’s gown if you’ll be very careful,
or, I’m going to let you deliver this wedding dress,