Would you bring into your life more power? Get the power consciousness. More health? Get the health consciousness. More happiness? Get the happiness consciousness. Live the spirit of these things until they become yours by right. It will then become impossible to keep them from you. The things of the world are fluid to a power within mankind by which you rule them.
You need not acquire this power. You already have it! But you want to understand it; you want to use it; you want to control it; you want to impregnate yourself with it, so that you can go forward and carry the world before you .
Day by day, as you gain momentum, as your plans crystallize, as you gain understanding, you will come to realize that this world is no dead pile of stones and timber, but that it is a living thing! It is made up of the beating hearts of humanity. It is a thing of life and beauty.
It is evident that it requires understanding to work with material of this description, but when you come into this understanding and are inspired by a new light, a new power, you gain confidence and greater energy, force and power each day, you realize your hopes and your dreams come true, life has a deeper, fuller, clearer meaning than before.
1. That much gathers more is true on every plane of existence, and that loss leads to greater loss is equally true.
2. Mind is creative, and conditions, environment and all experiences in your life are the result of your habitual or predominate mental attitude.
3. The attitude of mind necessary depends upon what you think. Therefore, the secret of all energy, force and power, all achievement and all possession depends upon your method of thinking.
4. This is true because you must "be" before you can "do", and you can "do" only to the extent that you "have", and what you "have" depends upon what you "think".
5. You cannot express energy, force and powers that you do not possess. The only way by which you may secure possession of energy, force and power is to become conscious of unity, and you can never become conscious of unity until you learn that all unity is from within.
6. There is a world within; a world of thought and feeling and energy, force and power; and, although invisible, its unity is mighty.
7. The world within is governed by mind. When you discover this world you shall find the solution for every problem, the cause for every effect; and since the world within is subject to your control, all laws of unity and possession are also within your control.
8. The world without is a reflection of the world within. What appears without has been found within. In the world within may be found infinite wisdom, infinite power, infinite supply of all that is necessary, waiting for unfolding, development and expression. If you recognize these potentialities in the world within they will take form within the world without.
9. Harmony in the world within will be reflected in the world without by harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, the best of everything. It is the fountain of health, all unity, all attainment, all achievement and all success.
10. Harmony in the world within means the ability to control your thoughts, and to determine for yourself how any experience is to effect you.
11. Harmony in the world within results in optimism, affluence within results in affluence without.
12. The world without reflects the circumstances and the conditions within.
13. If you find wisdom in the world within, you shall have the understanding to discern the marvelous possibility that are latent in this world within, and as you shall be given the energy, force and power to make these possibilities manifest in the world without.
14. As you become conscious of the wisdom in the world within you mentally take possession of this wisdom, and by taking mental possession you come into actual possession of the energy, force, power and wisdom necessary to bring manifestation the essentials for your most complete and harmonious development.
15. The world within is the practicle world in which the men and women of power generate courage, hope, enthusiasm, confidence, trust and faith, by which they are given the fine intelligence to see the vision and the practicle skill to make the vision real.
16. Life is an unfolding, not accretion. What comes to you in the world without is what you already possess in the world within.
17. All possession is based on consciousness. All loss is the result of a scattering consciousness.
18. Mental efficiency is contingent upon harmony; discord means confusion; therefore, they who would acquire unity must be in harmony with natural laws.
19. You 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 you in conscious communication with every part of your body. This system of nerves respond to every sensation of light, heat, odour, sound and taste.
20. When this mind thinks correctly, when it understands the truth, when the thoughts sent through the cerebro-spinal system to the body are constructive, these sensations are pleasant, harmonious.
21. The result is that you build strength, vitality and all constructive energy, force and power into your body, but it is through this same objective mind that all distress, sickness, lack, limitation and every form of discord and disharmony is admitted to your life. It is therefore through the objective mind, by wrong thinking, that you are related to all destructive forces.
22. You are related to the world within by the subconscious mind. The solar plexus is the organ of your mind ; the sympathetic system of nerves presides over all subjective sensations such as joy, fear, love, emotion, imagination and all other subconscious unity phenomena. It is through the subconscious that you are connected with the universal mind and brought into relation with the infinite constructive unity of the universe.
23. It is the co-ordination of these two centers of your being, and the understanding of their functions, which is the "great secret of life". With this knowledge you can bring the objective mind into conscious co-operation and thus co-ordinate the finite and the infinite. Your future is entirely within your control. It is not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power.
24. All agree that there is but one principle or consciousness pervading the entire universe, occupying all space, and being essentially the same in kind at every point of its presence. It is all powerful, all wisdom and always present. All thoughts and things are within itself, it is all in all.
25. There is but one consciousness in the universe able to think, when it thinks its thought becomes objective things to it. As this consciousness is omnipotent, it must be present within every individual; each individual must be a manifestation of that omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent consciousness.
26. As there is only one consciousness in the universe that is able to think, it necessarily follows that your conscious is identical with the universal consciousness, or, in other words, all mind is one mind. There is no dodging this conclusion.
27. The consciousness that focuses in your brain cells is the same consciousness which focuses in the brain cells of every other individual. Each individual is but the individualization of the universal, or, the "Cosmic Mind".
28. The universal mind is static or potential energy; it can manifest only through the individual, and the individual can manifest only through the universal. The fact is they are one.
29. The ability of the individual to think is your ability to act on the universal and bring it into manifestation. Human consciousness consists only in your ability to think. Mind in itself is believed to be a subtle form of static energy, from which arise the activities called "thought" which is the dynamic phase of mind. Mind is static energy, thought is dynamic energy ~ the two phases of the same thing. Thought is therefore the vibratory energy, force and power formed by converting static mind into dynamic mind.
30. As the sum of all attibrutes is concerned in the universal mind, which is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, these attributes must be present at all times in their potential form in every individual. Therefore, when you think, the thought is compelled by its nature to embody itself in an objectivity or condition which will correspond with its origin.
31. Every thought is therefore a cause, and every condition an effect; for this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts so as to bring forth only desirable conditions.
32. All unity is from within, and is absolutely under your control; it comes through exact knowledge and by the voluntary exercise of exact laws and principles.
33. It should be plain that when you acquire a thorough understanding of these laws and principles, and are able to control your thought processes, you can apply it to any condition; in other words, you will have come into conscious co-operation with omnipotent law, which is the fundamental basis of all things.
34. The universal mind is the life principle of every atom which is in existence; every atom is continually striving to manifest more life; all are intelligent, and all are seeking to carry out the purpose, plans and prayers for which they are created.
35. A majority of mankind lives in the world without; few have found the world within, and yet 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. Self Help will bring you into a realization of the unity 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; most people try to change effects by working with effects. They fail to see that this simply changing one form of distress for another. To remove discord, you must remove 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 being is a living testimony to this great law, and the error of the ages is in looking for strength or power from without.
39. The world within is the universal fountain of supply, and the world without is the outlet to the stream. Your ability to receive depends upon your recognition of this universal fountain, this infinite unity of which each individual is an outlet, and so is one with with each 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, but the principle of causation does not obtain in the individual but in the universal mind. It is not an objective faculty but 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; nothing can exist without 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 re-created.
42. You live in a fathomless sea of spiritual mind substance. It takes form according to the mental demand. Thought forms the mould or matrix from which the substance expresses itself.
43. Remember that it is in the application alone that the value consists, and that a practical understanding of these new laws will substitute abundance for poverty, wisdom for ignorance, harmony for discord and freedom for tyranny, and certainly there can be no greater blessing than these from a material and social standpoint.
