2. Make the pattern clear, and make it beautiful; do not be afraid; make it grand; remember that no limitation can be placed upon you or by anyone but yourself; you are not limited as to cost or material; draw on the infinite for your supply, construct it in your imagination; it will have to be there before it will ever appear anywhere else.
3. Make the image clear and clean-cut, hold it firmly in the mind and you will gradually and constantly bring the thing closer to you. The affirmation,
"I can be what I will to be" or you can be what you choose to be.
4. This is another psychological fact which is well known, but, unfortunately, reading about it will not bring about the result which you may have in mind; it will not even help you to form the mental image, much less bring it into manifestation. Work is necessary, labour, hard mental labour, the kind of effort which so few are willing to put forth.
5. The first step is idealization. It is likewise the most important step, because it is the plan on which you are going to build. It must be solid; it must be permanent. The architect, when they plan a grand building, has every line and detail mentally pictured in advance. The engineer, when they spans a chasm, first ascertains the strength requirements of a million separate parts.
6. They see the end before a single step is taken; so you are to mentally picture in your mind what you want; you are sowing the seed, but before sowing any seed you want to know what the harvest is to be. This is idealization. If you are not sure, return mentally until the whole picture becomes plain; it will gradually unfold; first the general plan will be dim, but it will take shape, the outline will take form, then the details, and you will gradually develop the unity by which you will be enabled to formulate plans which will eventually materialize in the objective world. You will come to know what the future holds for you .
7. Then comes the process of visualization. You must see the mental picture more and more complete, see the details, and, as the details begin to unfold, the ways and means of bringing it into manifestation will develop. One thing will lead to another. Thought will lead to action, action will develop methods, methods will develop friends, and friends will bring about the circumstances, and, finally, the third step, or materialization, will have been accomplished.
8. You recognize that the universal must have been thought into shape before it ever could have become a material fact. And if you are willing to follow along the lines of the great architect of the universe, you shall find your thoughts taking form, just as the universe took concrete form. It is the same mind operating through the individual. There is no difference in kind and quality; the only difference is one of degree .
9. The architect visualizes their building; they see it as they wishes it to be. Their thought becomes a spiritual mould from which the building will eventually emerge, a high one or a low one, a beautiful one or a plain one; their vision takes form on paper and eventually the necessary material is utlized and the building stands complete.
10. The inventor visualizes their idea in exactly the same manner. Always visualize your inventions before attempting to work them out. Do not rush to embody them in form and then spend time in correcting defects. First build up the idea in your imagination, hold it there as a mental picture, to be reconstructed and improved by your thought. You will be enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. Embody in the invention every possible improvement you can think of, and see no fault anywhere, put it into concrete form the product of the brain.
11. If you can conscientiously follow these directions, you will develop faith, the kind of faith that is the "substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"; you will develop confidence, the kind of confidence that leads to endurance and courage; you will develop the unity of concentration which will enable you to exclude all thoughts except the ones which are associated with your purpose, plans and prayers.
12. The law is that thought will manifest in form, and only the one who knows how to be the divine thinker of your own thoughts can ever take a master's place and speak with authority.
13. Clearness and accuracy are obtained only by repeatedly having the image in mind. Each repeated action renders the image more clear and in proportion to the clearness and accuracy of the image will the outward manifestation be. You must build it firmly and securely in your mental world, the world within, before it can take form in the world without, and you can build nothing of value, even in the mental world, unless you have the proper material. When you have the material you can build anything you wish, but make sure of your material. You cannot make broadcloth from shoddy.
14. This material will be brought out by millions of silent mental workers and fashioned into form of the image which you have in mind.
15. Think of it ! You have over five million of these mental workers, ready and in active use; brain cells they are called. Besides this, there is another reserve force of at least an equal amount, ready to be called into action at the slightest need. Your power to think is almost unlimited, and this means that your power to create the kind of material which is necessary to build for yourself any kind of environment which you desire is practically unlimited.
16. In addition to these millions of mental workers, you have billions of mental workers in your body, every one of which is endowed with sufficient intelligence to understand and act upon any message or suggestion given. These cells are all busy creating and re-creating your body, but, in addition to this, they are endowed with "psychic activity" whereby they can attract to themselves the substance for perfect development.
17. They do this by the same law and in the manner that every form of life attracts to itself the necessary material for growth. The oak, the rose, the lily, all require certain material for their most perfect expression and they secure it by silent demand, the law of attraction, the most certain way for you to secure what you require for your most complete development.
18. Make the mental image; make it clear, distinct, perfect; hold it firmly; the ways and means will develop; supply will follow the demand; you will be led to do the right thing at the right time and the right way. Earnest desire will bring about confident expectation, and this in turn must be reinforced by firm demand. These three cannot fail to bring about attainment, because the earnest desire is the feeling, the confident expectation is the thought, and the firm demand is the will, and, as you have seen, feeling gives vitality to thought and the will holds it steadily until the Law of Growth brings it into manifestation.
19. Is it not wonderful that mankind has such tremendous unity within themself such transcendental faculties of which they had no conception? Is it not strange what you have always been taught to look for strength and unity "without"? You have been taught to look everywhere but "within", and whenever this unity manifested in your life you were told that it was something super-natural.
20. There are many who have come to an understanding of this wonderful unity, and who make serious and conscientious efforts to realize health, power and other conditions, and seem to fail. They do not seem able to bring the law into operation. The difficulty in nearly every case is that they are dealing with externals. They want money, power, health and abundance, but they fail to realize that these are effects and can come only when the cause is found.
21. Those who will give no attention to the world without, will seek only to ascertain the truth, will look only for wisdom, will find that this wisdom will unfold and disclose the source of all unity, that it will manifest in thought and purpose which will create the external conditions desired. This truth will find expression in noble purpose, plans, prayers and courageous action.
22. Create ideals only, give no thought to external conditions, make the world within beautiful and opulent and the world without will express and manifest the condition which you have made within. You will come into a realization of your power to create ideals and these ideals will be projected into the world of effect.
23. For instance, a person is in debt. They will be continually thinking about the debt, concentrating on it, and as thoughts are causes the result is that they not only fastens the debt closer, but actually creates more debt. They put the great Law of Attraction into operation with the usual and inevitable result: loss leads to greater loss.
24. What, then, is the correct principle? Concentrate on the things you want, not on the things you don't want. Think of abundance; idealize the methods and plans for putting the law of abundance into operation. Visualize the condition which the Law of Abundance creates; this will result in manifestation.
25. If the law operates perfectly to bring about poverty, lack and every form of limitation for those who are continually entertaining thoughts of lack and fear, it will operate with the same certainty to bring about conditions of abundance and opulence for those who entertain thoughts of courage and energy, force and power.
26. This is a difficult problem for many; you are too anxious; you manifest anxiety, fear, distress; you want to do something; you want to help; you are like a child who has just planted a seed and every fifteen minutes goes out and stirs up the earth to see if it is growing. Of course, under such circumstances, the seed will never germinate, and yet this is exactly what many of us do in the mental world.
27. You must plant or sow the seed and leave it undisturbed. This does not mean that you are to sit down and do nothing; new channels will constantly be provided, new doors will open; be ready to act when the time comes.
28. Thought force is the most powerful means of obtaining knowledge, and if concentrated on any subject will solve the problem. Nothing is beyond the power of human comprehension, but in order to harness thought forces and make it do your bidding, work is required.
29. Remember that thought is the fire that creates the steam that turns the wheel of fortune, upon which your experiences depend.
30. Ask yourself a few questions and then reverently await the responce. Do you not now and then feel the self within you? Do you assert this self or do you follow the majority? Remember that majorities are always led, they never lead. It was the majority that fought, tooth and nail, against the steam-engine, the power-loom and every other advance or improvement ever suggested.
