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Lesson 4.4

WE VISION ONLY SUCCESS FOR YOU

Our sincerest wish for you is Progress - Progress TODAY - Progress TOMORROW and progress forever WITH ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW.

We are teaching you how to create your thought patterns and how to send them out intensified by the strength of your own magnetic expectation (Faith)

—and—they will come back to you in materialized blessings from your Infinite Source of Supply—and

soon.

And now... a friendly farewell, for another week and during this week shall vision you as, step by step, and day by day, toward the goal of your Heart’s Desire.

Here’s our hand of friendship, _and.our heart goes with it, for it is ever our earnest desire to help each one of our students and fellow member along that Hidden Pathway which leads.to a Golden Tomorrow. Remember, we vision only Success for you.

Lesson 4.3

‘The important thing about any work is beginning. it. Whatever you. accomplish, whether it is much or lit­tle, can be credited to the strength of the DE-SIRE, THE DETERMINATION behind the mental picture of your mind-imaging.-This determination; ‘your WILL-power, has been called “the soul itself exercising self-direction.

DETERMINATION DIRECTS CREATIVE POWER

Speaking: of General Grant, Lincoln once said, “The greatest thing about him is his cool persistency of pur­pose. He has the grip of a bulldog.. When he once gets his teeth in, nothing can. shake him off.”

Let us remind you that neither General Grant nor the bulldog has a corner on this grim tenacity of purpose. You have the same quality. Every normal . man and. woman has. This quality is the Power of your. WILL: Within you, this bulldog determination awaits only the .opportunity to be aroused to acts of courage, to Success and Happiness. But first, you must have willingness for this Power to manifest itself.

You have proved that you have this willingness to show bulldog stick-to-itive-ness when you became a mem­ber of the The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc., and here in this course, and in each lesson, is the opportunity for you to rove that you, have that mystic quality of tenacity of purpose to prove that you can follow each and every direction herein to the letter, and by keeping everlasting at it until you have achieved that success which is your heart’s desire. And you will achieve that success just as certainly as you understand and follow these teachings implicitly.

NEVER DECEIVE YOURSELF

Be very careful that. you never try to deceive yourself, even if it seems to be in the interests of a good cause, And be absolutely honest with yourself . in each step of the Inner Work which we give you in these Lessons in affirmations and more, and!” I tell you why You see, I often “kid” myself saying, ‘I am a success now’ when I really know that I’m an entire failure.”

Of course no affirmation can work as long as you use your mind to image that you are “kidding yourself.” How could it? Just as long as that man holds the mental image that he is “kidding himself ” just that long is he trying to deceive himself—and that cannot be done successfully.

But when you use your mental imaging from the plane of ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW and idealize your affirmation, “I am a success now,” and use that as the model which you are reproducing in life, you will soon become conscious that you are materializing your success.

YOU ARE LIKE AN AEOLIAN HARP

The human body is like an Aeolian Harp, a structure that is being constantly played upon by the winds of vibration, whether consciously or unconsciously, whether awake or -asleep. Think of it—that body of yours contains more than five thousand miles of nerve-wires, stretched tightly, which act as antenna to receive the vibrations which contact them, in both long and short waves.

Science has decided that all THOUGHTS really come from The Cosmic Mind, radiations of ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW, GOD, and enter into the two great nerve centers of human beings through the antenna of the nervous system.

We must leave this fascinating study just here, but we will return to it in a later lesson. Just now our purpose

is to tell you that through our correct methods of Mental Imaging, you are in reality tuning in your antenna to receive the Power and the Message of the Ever-lasting God. You will not fail.

GOD IS ALL POWER

ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW manifests in tremendous Energy. If we could tell you the secret of Energy, we ‘could answer the riddle of the ages. Every second this Cosmic Energy is active everywhere throughout the Universe. Our mortal-minds cannot comprehend such Power, but we can attune these minds of ours to receive just as much of this Power as we can use, through desire directed-affirmations.

AFFIRMATIONS FOR LESSON FOUR

Remember, in your concentration period for the next week, at the close of your period, repeat the following four Master Affirmations at least TEN TIMES. (Memorize them first.)

The unseen Power of the Infinite surrounds you like an ocean, and by your affirmations you are drawing in that Power of Infinite Supply into the very depths of your Being.

ABUNDANCE IS MINE TODAY!

WHAT I WANT TO HAVE IS ALREADY MINE! I AM NOW BEING WHAT I WANT TO BE!

MY INFINITE SOURCE OF SUPPLY IS UNLIMITED!

ATTAINING ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY

We sincerely believe that there is nothing in the world of hidden or occult knowledge like your next lesson, which is entitled “Attaining Attractive Personality.” This next Lesson, Number Five, will demonstrate in you Powers of which you may have dreamed, but which you never quite believed possible to you.

Lesson Five reveals to you still more of the Ancient Wisdom of the Ages and places in your lands the KEY to Success and to Power forbidden to all but the Initiates of the olden times. This principle, this priceless knowledge is possessed by but few men living today, and is treasured and kept in sacred trust for the members and the students of the American Bible.Institute.

But you need not take our word for this, amazing truth, because you are going to prove it in.your own trans-formed life. Results speak louder than words and Results you shall have.

RELAX, EXPECT AND RECEIVE

We should like you, to follow our particular Method of approach in studying , these lessons. This is NOT the usual method of study at all, but is a method whereby you absorb each lesson so that it becomes unfor­gettable.

First, relax,’ and cultivate a; calm, receptive, expectant frame of mind. We want you to “make haste” slowly and surely, External effort, hurry or strain immediately shuts off your Power to absorb—to receive..

Don’t “think hard” or “hurry,” or even “study,” just try using mental Pictures. After slowly reading the para­graphs under a subheading, just close your eyes and thoughtfully recall the statements under that heading. You will soon find that you have acquired a concentrated mental habit which enables you to read with, normal rapidity and to remember all that you read.

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Remember, by correct imaging you can create what you want. Be careful what you _want=.—sooner= or later,—and-usually sooner, you’ll get it.

SHUT YOUR MENTAL DOORS ONFAILURE

Sad to say, we live in a world peopled by failures. All around us are lives of frustration that seem hopeless. Beware of imaging these failures. Remember, the old rule in this country is “three generations from shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves” and the torrent of the political power of the “under-privileged” is sweeping us into even a shorter cycle from poverty to poverty.

During the past generation millions of people stood on the feet of some-one else - And they learned to like it. Relief, living on Dad, government pay-rolls or little routine jobs have been the ‘bane of that generation.

But as for you, avoid as you would a pestilence, all people who have stopped looking ahead. Never help them look back and sigh for the “good ole days.” Such people are only cheating the undertaker by staying alive from the neck down. They fear the future this sorry multitude.

In every European country the dumb, the lazy and the hopeless have made a sorry mess, and their failure to properly run their own little worlds have invited the strong, the shrewd and the ruthless to rule. Each of these countries has opened its mental doors to failure.

Remember, Paul warns us that “to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are.” Just as with nations, if you do not CHOOSE YOUR OWN OPEN ROAD some shrewd and cruel dictator will force you to travel his road—and you will find it a rough road and the going hard.

IMAGING CREATES DESIRE INTO REALITY

Again and again we tell you—and we cannot repeat this truth too often the conditions which make up your life today are the direct results of your own imaging which has created those conditions. If your life is happy and successful, then it is so because you have purposely IMAGED Happiness and Success. You are the prod­uct of the DESIRE which controls your imaging.

You are, then, your own master, whether for good or ill, for upon your own self depends the choice of the controlling DESIRE which through Your own imaging moulds for you a life of Health, Happiness and Success or an existence of sickness, misery and failure.

Perhaps you have looked with envy upon some seemingly more fortunate neighbor.- Perhaps he-has-wealth, comfort; -luxury,- lands, property, AND MONEY is plenty. Don’t envy him—avoid envy as you would a pest—Just follow the same unchanging LAW that your neighbor has, either consciously——or unconsciously followed. The ETERNAL LAW OF ABUNDANCE will work just as well for you as it did for him.

CREATIVE POWER DEPENDS UPON IMAGING

The riches of your neighbor were born of the creative power, that surged through his mind and then his activities to materialize his DESIRE-IMAGED wealth.’ This Creative Power, directed by his mind, built your neighbor’s present condition of Health, Happiness and Success until HIS MENTAL PICTURE—his constant imaging of the cherished desire became actual in his life and his environment. Your cherished desire - your idea-picture—becomes the controlling master of your life through IMAGING. Remember, though a toad masquerades as a bird, he is still a toad at heart. For at heart the toad has no cherished desire for wings and he prefers silence to the, beautiful song of the bird.

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Lesson 4.1 continued

whenever humanly possible your hour, or period, of concentration BE AT NIGHT...or during the evening hours.

There is not only a very deep psychological principle involved in choosing the hours of DARKNESS (night) for entering your period IN THE SILENCE, but according to the ancient wisdom of the Bible, ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW (God) is recorded as closest to Man in demonstration during or in DARKNESS (night). For proof of this fact, let us turn for a few minutes to the scared scriptures themselves.

A surprising part of our present Lesson awaits us here. Gen. 1:2 tells us that “darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the SPIRIT OF GOD moved upon the face of the waters.”

God—Eternal Spiritual Law—speaks often amid DARKNESS. “These words the Lord spake unto all your assem­bly in the mount out of the midst of fire, of the cloud. AND OF THE THICK DARKNESS,” records Deut. 5:22.

Immutable Spiritual Law still reveals secrets and gives Power to men and women at night, just as in the olden times “Then was the secret REVEALED unto Daniel IN A NIGHT VISION.” Then Daniel blessed the God of Heaven”. Dan. 2:19.

Turning to the New Testament, we find that Darkness and Night surround many manifestations of power (commonly miscalled “miracle”), for instance “...in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, walk­ing on the sea,” Matt. 14:25. Then there is how that beautiful night scene came to us by the beloved John, “The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, WHEN IT WAS YET DARK, unto the sephulchre...” (John 20:1)

Thus, let us not forget, Woman was the last friend at the Cross and the first human being to see the risen Christ in the las hours OF THE NIGHT. Daylight is disintegrating, often confusing-night vibrates with Silence and God.

IMAGING POWER OPENS ALL DOORS

Does it seem to you that Fate has slammed the door of Opportunity in your face? Nonsense! You are just mistaken, that is all. Suppose one door has swung shut in your face, be wise and know that the House of Life has a thousand doors; why, it’s all doors!

True it is that today we do live in the strangest, perhaps most terrifying times of all history. Before us and all around us are the grim and bloody desolutions of a war-torn World.

We all live between Hells, however, amid it all the divine imaging power that is ours to use opens the doors of...Heaven. Life never seemed less certain than now—but that is only the seeming. If you are weak, life becomes a burden—so dare to be strong. If you are timid, life becomes a mirror of horror—so dare to be brave.

Before you is the greatest road in the world—that road is open—that is the road that leads to your Golden Tomorrow. See it, visualize it, image it...Health, Happiness and Good Fortune beckon you...they are waiting for you just a short way along this open road.

STOP IMAGING BARRIERS ACROSS YOUR ROAD

Don’t build barriers across your own road by imaging them in your mind. Some people mentally image age as a bar to attainment. What a mistake! There Roosevelt’s magnificent train into the Capitol was seventy-seven

years old.