Lesson 3

LESSONNO.3
THE PATHWAY TO PERSONAL-POWER

The Secret Instruction in the Interpretation of the Ancient Wisdom of the Great Work of The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc.

“O MAN! KNOW THYSELF; FOR IN THEE IS HIDDEN THE TREASURE OF TREASURES.”

“I remember in my life happy weeks when I said to myself ‘I will no longer respect success: as the finishing and exhibition of my work; but every stroke on the work,’:every step taken in the dark toward it, every defect even, shall be sacred and luminous also. AM I NOT ALWAYS IN THE GREAT PRESENCE? I will not postpone, my existence but be always great and serene with that inspiration.” (Emerson)

UNIVERSAL MIND WORKS MIRACLES

Good Friend and Fellow Student:

This is your Lesson Number Three in the Pathway to Personal Power. Reviewing a few highlights which have marked Lessons one and two, you will remember that you learned in our first lesson that you are an individ­ual expression of God, that within you Universal Mind is Personalized.

Further, we taught you to know YOUR Mind as a unit of COSMIC MIND, that Mind is the throne of your Destiny, that THOUGHT is a Magnet, which attracts its own exact likeness, good or bad, to the thinker, and that, as the CATERPILLAR grows wings, so you too, can be transformed into the glory and the beauty of a new life incarnate.

In Lesson No. 2, “Mastering Your Fate,” we taught you how to command your Fate through the ETERNAL SPIRITUAL LAW THAT IS GOD, we taught you to change your mental picture of yourself to reflect the Ideal you which you desire. We taught you how to build a new world for yourself BY CHANGING your THINKING ABOUT GOD. We proved to you that God is NOT a, God of Poverty, but a God of Riches, and we taught you how to abide in God through unity of Thought Vibrations.

In this Lesson No. 3, we lead you—step-by-step, from the concept that Universal Mind is the Soul of God to the very deep truth that YOU ARE THE INFINITE OF INFINITY. We show you that unseen force which is present is a Healing Power. Your. exercise in this Lesson contains a secret method of accomplishing unlimited results in Visualization. Study slowly, carefully, earnestly, for in This Lesson is a Million Dollar Secret yours for but the understanding.

UNIVERSAL MIND IS THE SOUL OF GOD

As we told you in Lesson One, you, are an individual expression of God. Within you UNIVERSAL MIND is Personalized. Take way from you the physical and the erroneous mental, and in essence and by heredity you are DIVINE.

Here we quote from the Ancient Wisdom of the Brahmans: “The great CAUSE, not the first Cause, but the ONLY Cause of existence is that which is Invisible, is Unsizable, without origin, all pervading, SELF- EXIS‑