2. The most commonly accepted definition of wealth is that it consists of all useful and agreeable things which possess exchange value. It is this exchange value which is the predominate characteristic of wealth.
3. When you consider the small addition made by wealth to the happiness of the Universal Ambassador, you find that the true value consists not in its utility but in its exchange value.
4. This exchange value makes it a medium for securing the thing of real value whereby your ideals may be realized.
5. Wealth should then never be desired as an end, but simply as a means of accomplishing an end. Success is contingent upon a higher ideal than the mere accumulation of riches, and you who aspires to such success must formulate an ideal for which you are willing to strive.
6. With such a ideal in mind, the ways and means can and will be provided but the mistake must not be made of substituting the means for the end. There must be a definite fixed purpose, an ideal.
7. The person of success is the person possessed of the greatest spiritual understanding and every great fortune comes of superior and truly spiritual power. These people had no other power to depend upon, and thus, it did not fail them.
8. The power to create depends entirely upon spiritual power; there are three steps, idealization, visualization and materialization. Every captain of industry depends upon this power exclusively. The secret of their success is the power to vision a thing in its completeness. The vision of law. You see that thought necessarily precedes and determines action. If you are wise, you shall come into a realization of tremendous fact that no arbitrary condition can exist for a moment, and that human experience is the result of an orderly and harmonious sequence.
9. The successful business person is more often than not an idealist and is ever striving for higher and higher standards. The subtle forces of thought as they crystallize in your daily moods are what constitute life.
10. Thought is the "psyche" material with which you build images or your growing conception of life. Use determines its existence. As in all other things, your ability to recognize it and use it properly is the necessary condition for attainment.
11. Premature wealth is but the fore-runner of humiliation and disaster, because you cannot permanently retain anything which you do not merit or which you have not earned.
12. The conditons with which you meet in the world without, correspond to the conditions which you find in the world within. This is brought about by the Law of Attraction. How then shall you determine what is to enter into the world within?
13. Whatever enters your mind through the senses or the objective mind will impress the mind and result in a mental image which will become a pattern for the creative powers. These experiences are largely the result of environment, chance, past thinking and other forms of negative thought, and must be subjected to careful analysis before being entertained. On the other hand, you can form your own mental images, through your own interior processes of thought regardless of the thoughts of others, regardless of exterior conditions, regardless of environment of every kind, and it is by the exercise of this power that you can control your own destiny, body, mind and soul.
14. It is by the exercise of this power that you take your fate out of the hands of chance, and consciously make for yourself the experiences which you desire, because when you consciously realize a condition, that condition will eventually manifest is your life; it is therefore evident that in the last analysis thinking is the one great cause in life.
15. Therefore, to control thought is to control circumstances, conditions, environment and destiny.
16. How then are you to control thought? To think is to create a thought, but the result of the thought will depend upon its form, its quality and its vitality.
17. The form will depend upon the mental image from which it emanates; this will depend upon the depth of the impression, the predominance of the idea, the clarity of the vision, the boldness of the image.
18. The quality depends upon its substance; if this material has been woven from thoughts of vigour, strength, courage, determination, the thought will possess these qualities.
19. And finally, the vitality depends upon the feeling with which the thought is impregnated. If the thought is constructive, it will possess vitality; it will have life, it will grow, develop, expand; it will be creative; it will attract to itself everything necessary for its complete development.
20. If the thought is destructive, it will have within itself the germ of its own dissolution; it will die, but in the process of dying it will bring sickness, disease and every form of discord.
21. This you call evil, and when you bring it upon yourself, some of you are disposed to attribute your difficulties to a supreme being, but the supreme being is simply mind in equilibrium.
22. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is!
23. Your ability to differentiate it into form is your ability to manifest good or evil.
24. Good and evil therefore are not entities, they are simply words which you use to indicate the result of your actions, and these actions are in turn predetermined by the character of your thought.
25. If your thought is constructive and harmonious you manifest good; if it is destructive and discordant you manifest evil.
26. If you desire to visualize a different environment, the process is simply to hold the ideal in mind, until your vision has been made real, give no thought to persons, places or things; these have no place in the absolute; the environment you desire will contain everything necessary; the right persons, and the right things will come at the right time and in the right place.
27. It is sometimes not plain how character, ability, attainment, achievement, environment and destiny can be controlled through the power of visualization, but this is an exact scientific fact.
28. You will readily see that what you think determines the quality of mind, and that the quality of mind in turn determines your ability and mental capacity, and you can readily understand that the improvement in your ability will naturally be followed by increase in attainment and a greater control of circumstances.
29. It will thus be seen that Natural Laws work in perfectly natural and harmonious manner; everything seems to "just happen". If you want any evidence of this fact simply compare results of your efforts in your own life, when your actions were prompted by higher ideals and when you had a selfish or ulterior motives in mind. You will need no further evidence.
30. If you wish to bring about the realization of any desire; form a mental picture of success in your mind, by consciously visualizing your desire; in this way you will be compelling success, you will be externalizing it in your life by scientific methods.
31. You can see only what already exists in the objective world, but what you visualize, already exists in the spiritual world, and this visualization is a substancial token of what will one day appear in the objective, if you are faithful to your ideal. The reason for this is not difficult; visualization is a form of imagination; this process of thinking forms impressions on the mind, and these impressions in turn are the plans from which the master architect will weave the future.
32. The Psychologists have come to the conclusion that there is but one sence, the sence of feeling, and that all other sences are but the modifications of this one sence ; this being true, you know why feeling is the very fountain-head of power, why the emotions so easily overcome the intellect, and why you must put feeling into your thought, if you wish results. Thought and feeling are the irresistible combination.
33. Visualization must, of course, be directed by the will; you are to visualize exactly what you want; you must be careful not to let the imagination run riot. Imagination is a good servant but a poor master, and unless it is controlled it may easily lead you into all kinds of speculations and conditions which have no basis or foundation of fact whatever. Every kind of plausible opinion is liable to be acceptd without any analytical examination and the inevitable result is mental chaos.
34. You must therefore construct only such mental images as are known to be scientifically true. Subject every idea to a searching analysis and accept nothing which is not scientifically exact. When you do this you will attempt nothing but what you know you can carry out and success will crown your efforts; this is what business people call far-sightedness; it is much the same as insight, and is one of the great secrets of success in all important undertakings.
