2. As soon as you become conscious of the inexhaustible energy, force and power in the world within, you begin to draw on this unity and apply and develop the greater possibilities which this discernment has realized, because whatever you become conscious of, is invariably manifested in the objective world.
3. This is because the infinite mind, which is the source from which all things proceed, is one and indivisible, and each individual is a channel whereby this eternal energy is being manifested. Your ability to think is your ability to act upon this universal substance, and what you think is what is created or produced in the objective world.
4. The result of this discovery is nothing less than marvellous, and means that mind is extraordinary in quality, limitless in quantity and contains possibilities without number. To become conscious of this power is to become a "livewire"; it has the same effect as placing an ordinary wire in contact with a wire that is charged. The universal is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every demand and situation which may arise in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind it recieves all the power it requires. This is the world within. All science recognizes the reality of this world, and all power is contingent upon your recognition of this world.
5. The ability to eliminate imperfect conditions depends upon mental action, and mental action depends upon consciousness of energy, force and power; therefore, the more conscious you become of your unity with the source of all energy , force and power, the greater will be your energy, force and power to control and master every condition.
6. Large ideas have a tendency to eliminate all smaller ideas so that it is well to hold ideas large enough to counteract and destroy all small or undesirable tendencies. This will remove innumerable petty and annoying obstacles from your path. You also become conscious of a larger world of thought, thereby increasing your mental capacity as well as placing yourself in position to accomplish something of value.
7. This is one of the secrets of success, one of the methods of organizing victory, one of the accomplishments of the master mind. You think big thoughts. The creative energy, force and powers of mind find no more difficulty in handling large situations than small ones. Mind is just as much present in the infinitely large as in the infinitely small.
8. When you realize these facts concerning mind, you understand how you may bring to yourself any condition by creating the corresponding conditions in your consciousness, because everything which is held for any length of time in the consciouness, eventually becomes impressed upon the subconscious and thus becomes a pattern which the creative energy, force and power will weave into the life and environment of the individual.
9. In this way conditions are produced and you find that your life is simply the reflection of your predominant mental thoughts, your mental attitude ; you see then that the science of correct thinking is the one science, that it includes all other sciences.
10. From this science you learn that every thought creates an impression in the brain, that these impressions create mental tendencies, and these tendencies create character, ability, purpose, plan or prayer results, and that the combined action of character, ability, purposes, plan and prayer determines the experiences with which you shall meet in life.
11. These experiences come to you through the Law of Attraction; through the action of this law you meet in the world without the experiences which correspond to your world within.
12. The predominant thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that "like attracts like", consequently the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as correspond to its nature.
13. This mental attitude is your personality and is composed of the thoughts which you have been creating in your mind; therefore, if you wish a change in conditions all that is necessary is to change your thoughts; this will in turn change your mental attitude, which in turn change your personality, which will in turn change the persons, things and conditions, or the experiences with which you meet in your life.
14. The mental attitude is patterned after the mental pictures which have been photographed on the brain; if you do not like the pictures, destroy the negatives and create new pictures; this is the art of visualization.
15. As soon as you have done this, you will begin to attract new things, and the new things will correspond to the new pictures. To do this: impress on the mind a perfect picture of the desire which you wish to have objectified and continue to hold the picture in mind until results are obtained.
16. If the desire is one which requires determination, ability, talent, courage, power, these are necessary essentials for your picture; build them in; they are the feeling which combines with thought and creates the irresistable magnetic unity which draws the things you acquire to you . They give your picture life, and life means growth, and as it begins to grow, the result is practically assured.
17. Do not hesitate to aspire to the highest possible attainment in anything you may undertake for the mind unity is ever ready to lend themselves to a purposeful will in effort to crystallize its highest aspirations into acts, accomplishments and events.
18. An illustration of how theses mind forces operate is suggested by the method in which all your habits are formed. You do a thing, then you do it again, and again, and again until it becomes easy and perhaps almost automatic; and the same rule applies in breaking any and all bad habits; you stop doing a thing, and then avoid it again, and again until you are entirely free from it; and if you do fail now and then, you should by no means lose hope, for the law is absolute and invincible and gives you credit for every effort and every success, even though your efforts and successes are perhaps intermittent.
19. There is no limit to what this law can do for you; dare to believe in your own ideal; remember that nature is spiritual to the ideal; think of the ideal as an already accomplished fact.
20. The real battle of life is one of ideas; it is being fought out by the few against the many; on the one side is the constructive and creative thought, on the other side the destructive and negative thought, the creative thought is dominated by the ideal, the passive thought is dominated by appearances.
21. On the creative side are people who spend their time in laboratories, side by side the people who dominate the commercial, political and scientific world; on the negative side, are people who spend their time investigating law and precedent, people who mistake theology for religion, statesmen who mistake might for right, and all the many millions who seem to prefer precedent to progress, who are eternally looking backward instead of forward, who see only the world without, but know nothing of the world within.
22. In the last analysis there are but these two classes; all of mankind will have to take their place on one side or the other; you will have to go forward, or go back; there is no standing still in a world where all is motion; it is this attempt to stand still that gives sanction and force to arbitrary and inequitable codes of law.
23. That you are in a period of transition is evidenced by the unrest which is everywhere apparent. The complaint of humanity is as a roll of heaven's artillery, commencing with low and threatening notes and increasing until the sound is sent from cloud to cloud, and the lightning rends the air and Earth.
24. The sentries who patrol the most advanced outposts of the industrial, political and religious world are calling anxiously to each other. What of the night? The danger and insecurity of the position they occupy and attempt to hold are becoming more apparent every day. The dawn of a new era necessarily declares that the existing order of things cannot much longer be.
25. The issue between the old regine and the new, the crux of the social problem, is entirely a question of conviction in the minds of the people as to the nature of the universe. When they realize that the transcendental force of spirit or mind of the cosmos is within each individual, it will be possible to frame laws that shall consider the liberties and rights of the many instead of the previleges of the few.
26. As long as mankind regards the "Cosmic Unity" as a power non-human and alien to humanity, so long will it be comparatively easy for a supposed privileged class to rule by divine right in spite of every protest of social sentiment. The real interest of humanity is therefore to exalt, emancipate and recognize the divinity of the human spirit. To reconize that all energy, force and power is from within. That no human being has any more unity that any other human being. The old regime would have you believe that the law was superior to the law-makers; herein is the gist of the social crime of every form of previlege and personal inequality the institutionalizing of the fatalistic doctrine of divine election.
27. The Divine Mind is the Universal Mind; it does not act through sheer caprice or from anger, jealousy or wrath; neither can it be flattered, cajoled or moved by sympathy or petition to supply mankind with some need which they think necessary for their happiness or even their existence. The Divine Mind makes no exceptions in favour of any individual; but when the individual understands and realizes your unity with the universal principle, you will appear to be favoured because you will have found the unity source of all health, all wealth, all happiness and all love.
