2. All the great eternal energies, forces and powers act in solemn silence, but it is in your birthright to place yourself in harmony with them and thus express a life of comparative peace and happiness.
3. Difficulties, disharmonies and obstacles, indicate that you are either refusing to give out what you no longer need, or refusing to accept what you require.
4. Growth is attained through an exchange of the old for the new, of the good for the better, it is a conditional or reciprocal action, for each human is a complete thought entity and this completeness makes it possible for you to receive only as you give.
5. You cannot obtain what you lack if you tenaciously cling to what you have. You are consciously to control your conditions as you come to sense the purpose of what you attract, and are able to extract from each experience only what you require for your further growth. Your ability to do this determines the degree of harmony or happiness you attain.
6. The ability to appropriate what you require for your growth, continually increases as you reach higher planes and broader visions, and the greater your ability to know what you require, the more certain you shall be to discern its presence, to attract it and to absorb it. Nothing may reach you except what is necessary for your growth.
7. All conditions and experiences that come to you do so for your benefit. Difficulties and obstacles will continue to come until you absorb their wisdom and gather from them the essentials of further growth.
8. That you reap what you sow is mathematically exact. You gain permanent strength exactly to the extent of the effort required to overcome difficulties.
9. The inexorable requirements of growth demand that you exert the greatest degree of attraction for what is perfectly in accord with you. Your highest happiness will be best attained through your understanding of, and conscious co-operation with, natural laws.
10. In order to possess vitality, thought must be impregnated with love. Love is a product of the emotions. It is therefore essential that the emotions be controlled and guided by the intellect and reason.
11. It is love which imparts vitality to thought and thus enables it to germinate. The Law of Attraction, or the Law of Love, for they are one and the same, will bring to it the necessary material for its growth and maturity.
12. The first form which thought will find is language, or words; this determines the importance of words; they are the first manifestation of thought the vessels in which thought is carried. They take hold of the ether and by setting it in motion reproduce the thought to others in the form of sound.
13. Thought may lead to action of any kind, but whatever the action, it is simply the thought attempting to express itself in visible form. It is evident, therefore, that if you wish desirable conditions, you can afford to entertain only desirable thoughts.
14. This leads to the inevitable conclusion that if you wish to express abundance in your life, you can afford to think abundance only, and as words are only thoughts taking form, you must especially be careful to use nothing but constructive and harmonious language, which when finally crystallized into objective forms, will prove to your advantage.
15. You cannot escape from the pictures you incessantly photograph on the mind, and this photography of erroneous conceptions is exactly what is being done by the use of words, when you use any form of language which is not identified with your welfare.
16. You manifest more and more life as your thought becomes clarified and takes higher planes. This is obtained with greater facility as you use word pictures that are clearly defined, and relieved of the conceptions attached to them on lower planes of thought.
17. It is with words that you must express your thoughts, and if you are to make use of higher forms of truth, you may use only such material as has been carefully and intelligently selected with this purpose, plan or prayer in view.
18. This wonderful unity of clothing thoughts in the form of words is what differentiates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom; by the use of the written word the mind has been enabled to look back over the centuries and see the stirring scenes by which mankind has come into their present inheritance.
19. Mankind has been enabled to come into communion with the great writers and thinkers of all time, and the combined record which you possess today is therefore the expression of universal thought as it has been seeking to take form in the mind of mankind.
20. You know that the universal thought has for its goal the creation of form and you know that the individual thought is likewise for ever attempting to express itself in form, and you know that the word is a thought form, and a sentence is a combination of thought forms, therefore if you wish your ideal to be beautiful or strong, you must see that the words out of which this temple will eventually be created are exact, because accuracy in building words and sentences is the highest form of architecture and is a passport to success.
21. Words are thoughts and are therefore an invisible and invincible power which will finally objectify themselves in the form they are given.
22. Words may become the mental palaces that will live for ever, or they may become shanties which the first breeze will carry away. They may delight the eye as well as the ear; they may contain all knowledge; in them you find the history of the past as well as the hope of the future; they are the living messengers from which every human and super-human activity is born.
23. The beauty of the word consists in the beauty of the thought; the power of the word consists in the power of the thought, and the power of your thought consists in its vitality. How shall you identify a vital thought? What are its distinquishing characteristics? It must have principle. How shall you identify principle?
24. There is a principle of mathematics, but none of error; there is a principle of health, but none of disease; there is a principle of truth, but none of dishonesty; there is a principle of light, but none of darkness, there is a principle of abundance, but none of poverty.
25. How shall you know that this is true? Because, as you apply the principle of mathematics correctly you shall be certain of your results. Where there is health there will be no disease. If you know the truth you cannot be deceived by error. If you let in light there can be no darkness, and where there is abundance there can be no poverty.
26. These are Self evident facts, but the all-important truth that a thought containing principle is vital and therefore contains life and consequently takes root, and eventually but surely and certainly displaces the negative thoughts, which by thier very nature can contain no vitality, is one which seems to have been overlooked.
27. But this is a fact which will enable you to destroy every manner of discord, lack and limitation.
28. There can be no question but that you who "is wise enough to understand" will readily recognize that the creative power of thought places an invincible weapon in your hands and makes you a master of destiny.
29. In the physical world there is a law of compensation which is that "the appearance of a given amount of energy anywhere means the disappearance of the same amount somewhere else", and so you find that you can get only what you give. If you pledge yourself to a certain action you must be prepared to assume the responsibility for the development of that action. The subconscious cannot reason. It takes you at your word; you have asked for something; you are now to receive it; you have made your bed, you are now to lie in it; the die is cast; the threads will carry out the pattern you have made.
30. For this reason insight must be exercised so that the thought which you entertain contains no mental or physical germ which you do not wish objectified in your life.
31. Insight is a faculty of the mind whereby you are enabled to examine facts and conditions at long range, a kind of human telescope; it enables you to understand the difficulties as well as the possibilties in any undertaking.
32. Insight enables you to be prepared for the obstacles which you shall meet; you can therefore overcome them before they have any opportunity of causing difficulty.
33. Insight enables you to plan to advantage and turn your thought and attention in the right direction, instead of into channels which can yeild no possible return.
34. Insight is therefore absolutely essential for the development of any great achievement; with it you may enter, explore and possess any mental field.
35. Insight is a product of the world within and is developed in the silence of "GodScope Meditation" exercises by concentration.
