LESSON NO. 6

LESSON 6
THE PATHWAY TO PERSONAL POWER

“O MAN! KNOW THYSELF; FOR IN THEE IS HIDDEN THE TREASURE OF TREASURES.” (From an Egyptian Tablet)

THE SECRET OF THE AGES
SINCERITY
“Every being has a definite vocation and his vocation is the, light which illuminates his life. The man who disregards his certain vocation is a lamp unlit.
“He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that purpose a light begins to clear his confusion ...call it a revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. “It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal. (Herald of Light).
THAT INFINITE CURRENT OF POWER
This is your deep, significant and important Lesson Number Six. This Lesson, written in plain and simple words, is another Magic Key to understanding the use of that—sublime that—infinite Creative Power which silently endows you with glowing health, with supreme happiness and with abundant financial wealth, just in proportion as you open your consciousness to receive these good gifts from the Spiritual God Law.
The secrets of the Ancient Wisdom, which are revealed to you in this lesson, just as with every other les¬son in this forceful system of confidential instruction, will unlock for you those hitherto closely guarded doors to your rightful kingdom of plenty, of success and of the-possession of all good things necessary to your complete happiness, simply and easily through mental attraction. We can picture your gladness and your rejoicing because this marvelous system of METAPHYSICAL Lessons is coming to you just now to help you by showing you how to draw into your personal world the things you need most at this time. No wonder you are gladdened by such wonderful revelations as you are receiving now and we are happy indeed with you and for you!
HIGH-LIGHTS OF LESSONS FOUR AND FIVE
Just here let us pause as usual and review together a few of the high-lights of those two previous lessons, four and five.
You will remember that in “The Imaging Power Lesson,” (number four), you learned the three-fold secret by which you can attract every material blessing and by which you can draw from that Abundance all things which you earnestly desire: IMAGING, CREATING, BEING.
In that wonderful lesson on “Attractive Personality”, (number five), you learned that your personality is the impression you make upon others. Further, you learned why, attractive personality is so vitally important—and that is because-Personality and Success are partners!

EACH NEW REALIZATION TAKES TIME
Each lesson is dynamic with wonderful and momentous realizations, many of which will be new to you.:, Your lessons come to you once each week. Now, for every lesson-and for each new realization a certain time must lapse to allow you to absorb each wonderful concept and to unfold beneath its guiding light. We must remember that the true unfoldment is not made up of a rapid series of new realizations nor, of lessons that are only speedily scanned.
You cannot force the growth, unfoldment and the development of your higher powers of mental attraction to come to pass faster than is their natural rate. But at that, by and by, when you look back you will realize that you have made progress.
Let us impress upon you again, study alone is not so important in this field, for you might study and ponder and read endlessly, yet you will progress by degrees, just as ordained by Eternal Spiritual Law.
ANCIENT AND MODERN MYSTERIES
In the instruction you have the most sublime philosophy of all time simply explained; you have the practi¬cal. and direct personal knowledge which enables you to attract every material good fortune to yourself, and in this incomparable wisdom you will find revealed for yourself—the first time—the true secrets.
Please—for your own great good—follow us very closely and very care-fully in this revealing lesson. Don’t miss a single word and each should be weighed carefully. In fact, weigh each sentence and consider each para¬graph with the utmost care. Implicitly follow this amazing Light which shines upon your pathway from the great lighthouse, because this light, if you follow it, will lead you unfailingly into the glad realities of perfect health, of joyous happiness and of abundant financial riches!
We shall lead you from the veils and the symbols of the ancient mysteries into the dazzling light of a full understanding of the Secret of the Ages. This changeless Secret of the Ages is that, through and in your own consciousness, you realize the existence of an actual Spiritual Power which CAN and WILL and DOES bring to you, according to your demand and your need, when you know how to make that effective demand, an over-flowing supply of Health, Happiness and Prosperity.
ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM
In the many teachings of the Ancient Wisdom, upon which much of the philosophy of these lessons are founded, great space is given to suitable oriental veilings and parables. Thus the real lesson is deeply hidden in allegory and symbolism.
This has always been true of the deepest wisdom of the ages. Those wise teachers and ancient sages hid their really sublime teachings this way, so that they would be meaningless to the masses and yet ‘simple enough to the true initiate.
Student, with us, you have become a true initiate and so step by step these deeper mysteries shall be revealed to you.
CHRIST SPOKE IN PARABLES
When you for the first time begin to understand the amazing themes and truths that we plainly disclose to you upon every page of these wonderful lessons it is little wonder that these staggering concepts begin to transform your whole life at once.
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This sublime Truth, everywhere hidden within the allegory and the symbol-ism of the ages, is simply that Eternal Law—God—does not act throughout this universe to provide health, happiness and financial plenty in some mystical land beyond the clouds after you are dead, but that Spiritual God-.Law offers you all of these good things Here and Now, if you will only learn to obey the ever present Creative Law of Abundance and accept them!
The word “Mystery” is used in the New Testament twenty-five times, and every-vase-this-word-has the same—meaning, that is, a ritual secret which was to be given only to those students who had been prepared by proper instruction to receive and to understand it. To these ancient students the word “mystery” meant a hidden Truth to be had for the searching. These students were prepared by long ceremonials of “initiation” to receive and to grasp the very same illuminating knowledge which is now placed before you in this wonderful course of lessors.
Many, many of Christ’s words are proof that this was His method of instructing His students (disciples)— “Unto you is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God,” He told them, “but not unto all.” Again he said, “Cast not your pearls before the swine,” and once again, notice the hidden meaning of these words, “Ask and ye shall receive; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.”

FELLOWSHIP OF THE ETERNAL CONCEPT
When our founder re-discovered this sublime and Eternal concept of the Creative Law of the God-Realm, as our. universal and never-failing source of Abundant Supply for himself and applied this Creative Spiritual Law in his own Life the results were amazing. It is these same Truths that our Founder consciously`;and orderly used to bring about his-own rescue from the “valley of the shadow,!’ and the same-dynamic principles which he has multiplied the phas¬es of his business, resulted in an income many times over his former income in a short period of a few years.
Our Founder's enthusiasm and his intense desire to pass on to other needy persons the blessings of this star¬tling discovery of THE GREAT TRUTH behind the ancient “mysteries’.’ very naturally resulted in the estab¬lishment of the .The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc. School for the sole pur¬pose of teaching others these Great Truths.
In making these Dynamic Truths available to sincere men and women every-where our Founder has in turn attracted to himself_ and is continuing to enjoy,
day by day, all the material blessings and all the well earned happiness for which most men long hopelessly all their. lives. And -it is just as true that every material blessing for which you long, together with the joyous health and happin¬ess.that are your rightful heritage, all of these things shall be yours, too, just as soon as you understand how to apply this unchanging Creative Spiritual Law and become conscious of your inexhaustible source of abundance; of perfect health; of beautiful love and a happy family; of an elegant home; yes, Good Friend, God’s kingdom of Abundance will furnish you all of these things and much more when you learn to draw from the Kingdom of God through the unfailing Spiritual God-Law.

“THE ‘MYSTERY’ OF THE FELLOWSHIP”
In the New Testament you will remember that the early Christian apostles laid great emphasis upon what they termed “the mystery of the fellowship.”
In so doing they were carrying out the direct instruction of Christ; and, further, by doing this, they informed

us that the gospel (scriptures) contains secrets (‘mysteries’) which can only be understood by those possessing the keys.
After all, isn’t this good common sense? Would it not be foolish to attempt to teach higher mathematics to a child who has not yet learned to add?
So, sentence by sentence, step by step, these lessons explain secret after secret of the ages, and mystery after mystery until this entire, this tremendous concept presents you the true picture of the Supreme God-Intelligence that vibrates throughout this Universe, clear as the morning sunrise. And we teach you very simply that here and now, this Infinite God-Mind provides perfect, overflowing Supply for YOU and for me and for every other man and woman in the world, when they have learned to understand and apply this Dynamic Spiritual Law.
FAITH IN YOUR UNLIMITED SUPPLY

The first practical and easy step is this: expand your thinking about God and have faith in your unlimited supply. Isn’t that simple? Yet that is the same simple and sublime Truth hidden within nearly every parable, allegory and symbol of the ageless story of Christ.
Those students of the occult, versed in all and symbolism, read the Bible in its inner, its spiritual meanings and when one learns the true meaning of the Bible he begins to understand it as a purposely hidden record which, of course, the uninitiated cannot understand. But as you are now one of the true initiates, we shall reveal to you one by one the secrets concealed behind the ancient symbolism, as we shall use them in our instruction.
Keep centering your thoughts on the things you desire. Keep your mind receptive! Constantly EXPECT your Great Desire to come true—Visualize (see) it as an actual fact.
SEE HEALTH, WEALTH AND WISDOM
This “inner contemplation” or Though-Imaging is one of the most priceless secrets that we are imparting to-you in these revealing lessons. So, we want our instructions to be very plain and very easily understood in this most import-ant part of your .occult development.
Once more let us caution you not to discount this unique system of attainment because it. seems wimple to you. All great things in this world are simple—when you understand them!
This mental worm of thought-imaging can be carried on at any time and in any place where you can be alone and where you can relax and be thoroughly comfortable.
How often—Oh, how very, often—your poor, weary, discouraged heart has longed for a full measure of health, for a full, measure of peace and contentment and for a full measure of material riches and happiness, only to be disappointed at every turn you made! But you have never found these full measures of blessing until now and now all of these blessings are becoming yours as you grasp and follow these gloriously transforming concepts which were Rediscovered by our Founder and by him given to a failing, discouraged world through these incomparable lessons.
Remember, your thought-image is the most important thing in the world to you now. Make your mental pic¬ture distinct; make it wonderful to yourself; pour your emotions into that image!
By the depths of your own feeling you will make this thought-image intense, vital, alive!

See Your Great Desire as already Yours in reality. Act just as if it were. Always picture it as real now! This material world is built out of the world of dreams!
“YE ARE GODS” SAID CHRIST
Every mystical religion and every religious mythology that our world has ever known teaches that in essence we are God in power and in spirit, but that we died in the land of our birth in the Garden (of Hesperides) and mys¬tically dying we descended into hell, and, moreover the ancient rituals and mysteries demonstrate that like Christ, Osiris, Mithra and all other types of the God-Man, we, too, may rise from the tomb and soar to the skies of suc¬cess, of supreme happiness and of glorious attainment, here and now, not “over there” (where-ever that may be!)
When you encountered and began to absorb the magnificently clear concepts and teachings of these lessons, that very day you arose from the tomb of small and narrow beliefs and the dark and fearful vagaries of man-made “hells” of misguided “churchianity” because the Truth has made you free.
Because we must use the words of the language of every-day life to express spiritual conceptions there is always difficulty, in avoiding misunderstandings which may at times prevent the true perception on the part of the student of dividing lines between the physical world and the psychic realm or “The God Realm”.
When you have attained to the Advanced Work of the The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc. , then you will never try to describe the occult experiences of your Soul as it ascended through the Hidden Degrees of The Grand Work in the everyday words of the masses.
As you progress from one degree to the next degree in this Great Work, always bear in mind, that no descrip¬tion which is yours, no matter what words you use, can ever picture to the UNINITIATED any part of the mystical Kingdom of the God-Realm which has been entered by you.
We, your teachers, as initiates, will explain and indicate the exercises, and the devotions which you must fol¬low even to the letter. But remember, neither we nor anyone else will tell you in earthly words just what glo¬ries and, await you in those spheres where you can enter in due time—those spheres, (kingdoms) which tran¬scend the tawdry tinsel of this physical world.
Only by decisively accepting and absorbing the sublime Truths that we teach. coupled with following those Truths to the letter, only thus will you learn to live consciously in this Creative Intelligence whom men call God and thus you will enter the mastery of the secret of drawing upon the inexhaustible God-Realm first, for the material supply that shall fulfill your every right desire.
WHY YOU HAVEFAILED
Before you contacted the simple yet dazzling Truth in this teaching about God, .you have doubtless often wondered why you had failed, because you knew full well that your old, narrow orthodox beliefs had never brought you health, happiness or riches.
Here’s why you have failed in the past... before you began to succeed with The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc. Lessons.
Simply because you built, your beliefs about God upon the same false assumption which is the cornerstone of the bigotry, the superstition and the ignorance of the misguided “Religious Leaders” around you. Briefly, that is the false teaching that God is a personal being, suspiciously human in all his attributes, to whom- man owes fear, obedience, gifts, worship, devotion, BUT MOST OF ALL, FEAR!

CREATIVE POWER EVERYWHERE AROUND YOU
We maintain that the Hebrew Scriptures, when rightly understood, contain no authority for the assumption of a personal God.
Our divine mission is to bring to you the scientific Truth that the same creative Intelligence which created this Universe is everywhere around you and vibrates-within-you, everywhere invisible yet everywhere the most Dynamic form of Power in existence.
Rest assured that when you consciously and sincerely open your Mind and receive this invisible Creative Power of the God-Law, then every right desire that you have pictured in your mind, with Faith and Confidence, believing, will materialize into your life in ever increasing abundance.
The abundant riches of your fondest dreams are all around you AND ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU.
Health and Success, Love and Happiness, each awaits your choice. Again we repeat the changeless Law of Attainment decide definitely on THE ONE CHIEF DESIRE you want most in life’s treasure-house. Visualize this ONE GREAT DESIRE, see it mentally, feel it in your grasp, concentrate upon it, thus you imprint this Desire-Picture upon Universal Divine Mind and the you will have.
Here is your most marvelous concept amid the many, many wonderful scientific. Truths of this particular lesson; you can form, you can create, you can attract to yourself WHAT YOU WILL AND WHAT YOU DESIRE MOST STRONGLY from this ocean of Vast Creative Power which vibrates within and around you continually! The process is simple, but so unbelievably effective that we repeat it once more, so that we may impress each simple step upon your memory with indelible clearness. So, again, read carefully and forget ,it not—concentrate upon your heart’s desire see yourself possessing it. KNOW that this Heart’s Desire is in Reality, already yours, not in some indefinite and hazy future time, but that it is YOURS HERE AND NOW.
Then you will give thanks for these miracle-working Lessons which so clearly outline each upward step for you upon your path to Creative Power.
SECRET OF THE LOST WORD
All around us in this world there are sounds which your human ear can never hear and we know that there are radiations in the air everywhere which we cannot see, hear or feel. But when we transform these radiations into sound waves—as with the radio—then we can hear what we cannot see or feel. These radiations (vibra¬tions) while invisible and inaudible, travel through any material...and instantly.
Certain words are radiations of unknowable Power!—and one of these words called the “Lost Word”, man has sought for ages.
Yet Moses, the law-giver of the Hebrew Scripture, an initiate of the secret wisdom of the Egyptians and edu¬cated in their, temples, so long ago gave us a plain and simple statement about GOD in words that gave a deep meaning to the hidden power of “the name of the Lord.”
In Exodus (3:14) we read these words of Moses: “Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.”
The name of the Lord then is I AM.
Again in the words of Deuteronomy 6:4: “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is ONE.” (This is a

literal translation of the original Hebrew)
So, the I AM is ONE and there so is no second.
This powerful name (emanation from Universal Divine Mind) is the “Lost Word!’ which men sought every-where during the many, many centuries of the Dark Ages.
Here is another significant statement in Deuteronomy which reveals another fact about this word of power to us: “But the word is very nigh (near) unto thee.
Notice that these words “I AM” are constantly in our mouth and in our heart for most people repeat these two words a thousand times a day!
WE CANNOT DIVIDE THE INFINITE,
We have learned that the name of The Infinite Spirit in Life is I AM. We cannot divide the infinite. This Infinite I AM vibrates in you, in me and in every other human being. All manifests THE ONE. Let us then realize that I The ONE I AM—the Infinite is within us, and surrounds us on all sides.
I AM—God—is the one power that does all things. One living Intelligent Power is creating all those things which we call “good”. This Infinite, Intelligent Power is the divine center of your whole life.
You can only realize this infinite I AM through.your personal unfoldment. So these significant lessons seek to easily develop your unfoldment week by week and month by month. Even now—or very soon—you will recognize the ONE I AM Divine Power as your Infinite Source of Supply.
Then you will know that the highest expression of the ONE I AM toward you is Love. “God is Love”. And Infinite Love grants your Greatest Desire, recreates Health, bestows Happiness and blesses with material wealth. This is the Secret of the Ages.

FOUR SECRET AFFIRMATIONS OF ONENESS
I AM ONE -WITH THE ONE I AM!
I AM ONE WITH HEALTH!
I AM ONE WITH HAPPINESS!
I AM ONE WITH ABUNDANT PROSPERITY!
YOUR KINGDOM OF CREATIVE POWER
That is the striking title of your next lesson, number seven, which reveals. to you some of the most remark-able secrets of enfoldment and of personal oneness and power for you to discover, secrets that you will find priceless. Lesson seven will amaze you!
And now, once more, we part company and leave with you this lesson for your fuller development, this les¬son which puts you in direct contact with the . secret of the ages—The Lost Word of Divine Power—the Infinite name, the “ONE I AM!”
So here’s our most friendly farewell for another week and we know that your unfoldment will astonish you before we meet again.

LESSON NO.5.2

Always remember, Good Friend, our lives are all bound up in and dependent upon the lives of those other people upon whom we make these favorable or unfavorable impressions. You yourself are the product of what other people around you, together with—your affairs and efforts, have made you.
Nearly two thousand years ago that great and learned follower of The Nazarene , Paul, clearly stated this universal system of human relations when he wrote, “For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.” (Romans 14:7)..
Think back...and you will agree with us that whatever success in life you have had was because you were either able to impress men or women of influence with your superior talent, or because you attracted the friendship of those who could properly promote you, or who had the power to open doors of opportunity for-you. That you might win success it was very necessary for you to make a favorable impression upon other people.

YOU CAN HAVE SO MANYFRIENDS
When your personality impresses others with your own spirit of friendship you will attract a host of new friends.
Let your personality glow with the inner truth that you are a very real and a very. true person to the people around you, and they in turn, and before you know it, will reward you with their friendship, their affection and their help.
Give out real friendship—radiate a warm interest in everybody around you-and everywhere along life’s path-way you will find helping hands and friendly hearts assisting you to gain success.
MAGNETIC PERSONALITY AT WORK
Many books have been written about that seemingly mysterious “something” called Personal Magnetism. But when we come to really analyze personal magnetism we find that, after all, it is a very simple quality of Personality.. We discover that this “something” about which there has been so much mystery is nothing more or less than being honestly interested in people and letting that sincere human interest shine forth in our words and our deeds.
DO THIS—and you will have so many friends that you will find undreamed-of riches in your life Here and Now! But remember, you must DO your part before you can claim these riches that are waiting for you.
HERE’SWHAT YOU DO
Never forget that the most interesting subject to any man or woman is self - himself or herself.
So, talk about them—ask about their baby—their trip, their health, their work—admire some treasured pos¬sessions of theirs—show that you are really interested in them. Forget yourself. They’ll rise up and call you blessed, they’ll class you as the most intelligent person that they know and you 've n a them your friend for life! Simple, isn’t it?
Suppose you start this campaign of making friends today and start right where you are Friends, like gold, are where you find them and you’ll find plenty of them all around you now. Friends, like gold, represent riches!
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOTHES
The psychology of clothes, or, in other words, the effect the way we dress has in creating the impression we make upon other people, is now recognized everywhere as a most important factor in our modern civilization.

How often you have heard this excuse from those who are ignorant of the great importance of correct apparel and good grooming, “Oh, well, if people don’t like my clothes and if they don’t like me just as I am, I don’t care!
Of course you know that this is purely a’ defensive attitude, which is always the attitude of :weakness. People who make such excuses realize that some-thing is wrong with their attire and that something is wrong with their personality. ‘But too often such people are either too ignorant, too indifferent, or too lazy to find out exactly what that wrong something is and then remedy it.
Yet, in a vague sort of way, such people do care, because you will hear them constantly whining about their “fate” or their “bad luck” and wondering why they can never succeed.
GOOD CLOTHES MAKE GOOD IMPRESSIONS
Psychologists now claim that the old saying “Clothes do not make the man” is not true at all in the real mean¬ing of the term. They claim that correct clothes and proper grooming do, more than perhaps anything else, MAKE the man or woman. For correct attire and good grooming present at man or woman in the proper set¬ting and attract favorable attention and consideration which they would otherwise never receive.
While it is true that some people have achieved great success in life who were extremely careless about their clothes, yet these few had attained such power of personality which otherwise means that they succeeded in. spite of, and not because of, their clothes.
There are also, on the other hand, many misguided people who seem to devote their entire attention to their attire and to their appearance and yet never succeed. This is simply because there is no worth-while personal¬ity behind his or her apparel. Neither a clothes horse or a tailor’s dummy has personality.
DOUBLE EFFECT OF CLOTHES ON PERSONALITY
In this most important matter of Personality, the effect of your clothes is double. First, there is the very noticeable effect upon yourself, and second, the impression that your clothes make upon others.
This tremendous effect of suitable clothes upon the self was known to the ladies a vary long time ago, for it was a lady who once told Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, “When I know that I am perfectly well dressed, that consciousness gives me a peace such as even religion cannot give.
“When a person is satisfied, contented, in good humor, when he is “happy” in short, he expends more energy, has more initiative, and is altogether more efficient than when he was a ‘grouch’, or any of the condi¬tions opposite to happiness. Freedom from discomfort underlies all this and its importance underlies the psy¬chology of clothes in particular.

SUITABLE CLOTHING PROTECTS YOU FROM FEAR
Fear is back of all failure. “We may note without being contradicted, “ continues the good doctor, “that clothing at one time or another in some people, if not in others, protects us against fear. Fear generally under-lies the psychology of clothing as it does the psychology of other important features of our common social life.
“Self confidence is another form or aspect of the essential satisfaction arising from clothing fitness a Protected, fearless, initiative, unirritated, mind free normal manhood and womanhood, confident of its eter

nal and universal mastery, arise ,from a rational self-satisfaction. Clothes help this in no small degree, or hin¬der it. “Success has as one of its conditions a self- confidence, a fearlessness and success in general usually is not possible without that self-confidence, this eye-to-eye fearlessness of general criticism.”
You can defeat Fear the attractive power of well-dressed Personality!

REAL SELF SHINES THROUGH PERSONALITY
Back of all Personality is the Real Self, the Ego, the Inner Thought shining through dimly or in clear brilliance. You create your own life day by day, you are your own director, your own power comes not from without. but from Within.
Mind - Spirit -Body - we dust help you gain all three to attain your Chief Desire. In teaching you how to attar attractive, powerful. Personality we are helping you to SEND FORTH, TO DO, TO KNOW AND THUS TO GROW.
ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITIES MASTER FATE
Your great reward is this—when you have attained attractive forceful personality, you master Fate and Circumstance in your life. We teach you how to eliminate negatives, your doubts and your fears and your fail¬ure-thoughts by replacing them with Faith and Power Thoughts. When you realize that attractive personality lifts you to a world above fear, you need never feel discouraged and you need never admit defeat.
FOUR GREAT LAWS OF MASTERY
If teaching you how to attain Attractive Personality, you will observe that eve fallow the same great laws that govern a mastery which are the foundation of the entire The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc. philosophy. These are the four great laws that rule transformation on every plane of devel¬opment.
First,.then, we teach you to observe and follow Nature; through her laws and methods of work we reveal to you many most vital truths. Second, we teach you to know and then to act. Third, we teach you the Oneness of Will, Purpose and Means. We teach you ,how to use that great instrument, the Mind; we teach you how to -direct that. great servant, the Body; and we teach you how to concentrate that great fire, the Spirit, Fourth— and following the fourth great law, we teach you to keep that fire of your Spirit always burning! For if the met¬als with which you work once cool, you will have to do the work all over again.
THAT SILENT FRIEND–YOURMIRROR
That silent friend—your mirror will inform you from day to day about your progress in attaining attractive outward personality. So, in order to make the great truths of this lesson fully yours, consult that silent friend each day. Your mirror will reflect plainly each and every improvement you make in your appearance. The new and admiring friends that you will now add to your circle from day to day will prove to you, in spite of any doubts-you may have had, that you are attaining magnetic, attractive personality.
In bidding you goodbye for another week all of us here at Headquarters want you to know that we are your friends. Don’t hesitate to write to us when-ever you are in doubt, or find anything that pushes or puzzles you. Your letters are always welcome here. We want you to feel that these lessons, though they are printed, are just

as personal as if we had sat down at our typewriter and written them to you.
Consult your mirror every day. Continue your usual evening concentration period. Concentrate upon your Heart’s Desire.

A PARTING WORD
Lesson Six which, of course, fo llows in one week, will prove to be another amazing-revelation to you of sti ll greater and deeper Secrets of the Ages. These secrets have long been hidden under a cloak of supposed “mys¬tery”, but they come to you in plain and simple words and make available to you undreamed of powers for success and mastery.
Now we bid you a friendly farewell for another week and remember, we thank of you here, not as a name or even as just a student, but as our brother or sister–our friend.

LESSON NO.5.1

LESSON NO.5.1
THE PATHWAY TO PERSONAL POWER

Secret Instruction in the Interpretation of the Ancient Wisdom of the Great Work of the The Academy of Philosophical Operational and Future Science Inc.,
ATTAINING ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY
In this lesson, number five, we present for your earnest and thoughtful study, proven and time-treated meth¬ods of attaining that attractive personality which will change you whole long life from endless possibilities of failure to the success you most desire...
Let us pause here for a few moments and glance backward along the path-way which we have traveled together and review just a, few of the truths hidden from the World which we have learned in Lessons Three and Four.
In Lesson Three (The Miracle Lesson) we gave you the very advanced teaching that Universal Mind is the SOUL OF GOD Further, we showed you how the Universal God-Mind in you connects you with the mar¬velous Creative Power~ in your own life and we revealed to you the nature of that Unseen Divine Force which is the ever-present Healing Power of the ages.
In Lesson Four (the Imaging-Power Lesson) we explained to you the three-fold’ secret of IMAGING, CRE¬ATING,” and BEING by the use of which you can create or attract to you all, the material Abundance which you really desire.
So. step by step, we have led you from one truth to another logically, and each of these four previous les¬sons has helped, to prepare you for this still deeper lesson, number Five.
AVOID ALL STRAIN WHEN YOU STUDY
In the beginning your study of this most important Lesson, just as with all of your Lessons with us, we want to impress upon you once again that all you will absorb these, Dynamic Lessons best when both your mind and your body are entirely at ease. Relax, and again relax, and thus you will enter your periods of study in a receptive frame of mind.
And from the paragraph following the above in Lesson One, entitled, “The Shadow of The Unseen,” these words:
“All material things are but the shadows of the unseen. The garments which clothe that form in your mir¬ror are the garments which you thought into your possession—you selected those garments.”
FACE REVEALS CHARACTER
Modern character analysts assure us that our face reveals our character. They inform us that everything about us tells the world what we are.
Of course you desire a successful magnetic and active personality. This requires understanding on your por¬tion, so your study must begin with your-self. For purposes of comparison and to analyze the elements of their success, make a careful study of those persons around you who prove in their daily lives that they possess the secret of successful personality.

Right here we do most sincerely assure.you that you can develop and you can cultivate a magnetic and suc¬cessful personality. Of course, like every other worth-while accomplishment in life, you must first learn how. That is exactly what this lesson teaches; the How of Attractive Personality.
The first practical step, then, is to once more closely observe yourself in that full-length mirror, this time with a determined purpose of judging, fairly and impartially, just what the impression is that you make upon others at the present time.

SOUL AND MIND PLUS OUTWARD APPEARANCE
Don’t let yourself become confused by the great number of little things or details, which seem to make up an Ideal or an Attractive Personality. -After all, when we analyze the Ideal Personality for which you long, we find that the primary or most important factors of that attractive personality are really comparatively few. Once these few really important factors are acquired, those other seemingly numerous details become yours also. “Divide and conquer” shall be our motto here, so let us divide this problem of magnetic personality into its few really important parts and work them out one part at a time.
Personality has been defined as “soul and mind plus outward appearance.” This greatly simplifies our prob¬lem. Now we realize that “soul and mind” can really only manifest to the world about us here through our “outward appearance.” While we cannot always control our soul or our mind we can always choose to a large extent what our outward appearance shall be.
PERSONALITY AND SUCCESS ARE PARTNERS
Personality, then, being the impression you make upon others, is most
There is no “mystery” of life, in reality. This word “mystery” is only used to hide Man’s lack of understand¬ing. For instance, let us imagine that here’s a complicated airplane in Now we who do not understand this engine, content ourselves by saying that this engine is a mystery to us. But to one who has learned all about airplane engines and who knows all about this particular engine, there is no mysterious part.
If you never realized until now that this word “mystery” is. only a screen to hide people’s lack of knowledge, perhaps you, too, have been misled and.so have stood in your own light.
To attribute mystery to anything indicates weakness. Knowledge is Power and so that you may be strong, and so that the lamp of sure wisdom may be filled and burning brightly in your life, we place within your hands this price-less instruction.
WHAT IS PERSONALITY
Perhaps you have been confused-by the many and often very confusing ways in which this word Personality is used by different people you have met and by the puzzling and often -senseless ways in which this word is used in print. So, a great amount of mystery has attached itself to this word personality, and of course, “mys¬tery” is only another word for lack of understanding.
First, then, let us find out exactly what the word PERSONALITY means. Let us turn to Webster. Webster defines personality as that which distinguishes a person, or the sum total of one’s characteristics, or a compos¬ite of emotional tendencies, behavior inclinations and the like.” So much for Mr. Webster.

PERSONALITY - THE IMPRESSION YOU MAKE ON OTHERS
Personality is the impression which you make upon other people.
Your personality, then, determines what other people think about you. Their opinion of you is formed by the impression.which your personality makes upon them.
Strictly speaking, humanity presents only two great classes of personality. Let me tell you a little ‘story, just to illustrate these two great divisions of personality.
This happened one day in the dining room of a large hotel. Two women were lingering at their table for a friendly chat.
My attention was suddenly attracted by this remark from one of these two women, “Look l Here comes Mrs. Smith... isn’t she attractive? My but she is a lucky woman. She just seems to get everything she wants without half trying.
Naturally, I turned to look at the woman with the “personality.” She was just coming into -the room with a group of admiring friends.
Her personality really seemed to fill the room with her presence. Even the waiters were unusually attentive to her. Yet she was not a beautiful woman, and her clothes were neither striking nor costly. But the effect of her personality seemed to set her apart from every other woman in the room. Although I never saw her again, I never forgot this woman, because there was a memory of happiness at having beheld such a radiant personality.
George Eliot must have been thinking of some such magnetic personality when she wrote, “It is always good to know if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.”
The world avoids negative personalities. When I looked more closely at the woman whose remarks I”had overheard’, I saw than hers was that opposite, drab, negative personality which everyone avoids instinctively. She belonged to that great mass of people who were doomed to live. unnoticed and frustrated lives, unless they find themselves. Unnoticed and frustrated because of negative and colorless personality.
This little incident illustrates these two great classes of personality into which all men and women are divid¬ed; those who are colorful, interesting and attractive and those who are drab, dull and easily forgotten.
But, you may ask, can anyone possess this attractive personality, or is it a gift presented to a chosen few at birth by a kind Providence.
No Good Friend an attractive personality is not some peculiar gift at birth and it is not limited to the few. Here and now, in this lesson, we shall help you to develop a winning charming, magnetic personality .
FULL LENGTH MIRROR PICTURES OUTER SELF
Now, let us turn to Lesson One and carefully review two paragraphs; first, the paragraph headed 10A Full Length Mirror Pictures Your Thinking, “ from which we quote:
“Here is our first exercise perhaps a startling object lesson. Just pause in your study and go stand before a full length mirror, if possible. If you have no full length mirror in your home, locate one and follow the exer¬cise then. Now, with seeing eyes study the picture that is reflected back to you from that mirror.
Does your mirror reflect the sunshine of Success or the shadows of failure, Happiness or gloom, Health or-sickness? Remember, you are looking at the product of your own thinking up-to-date. Your body first existed as a thought.

LESSON NO.5

LESSONNO.5
THE PATHWAY TO PERSONAL POWER

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

ATTAINING ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY

In this lesson, number five, we present for your earnest and thoughtful study, proven and time-treated meth­ods of attaining that attractive personality which will change you whole long life from endless possibilities of failure to the success you most desire...

Let us pause here for a few moments and glance backward along the path-way which we have traveled together and review just a, few of the truths hidden from the World which we have learned in Lessons Three and Four.

In Lesson Three (The Miracle Lesson) we gave you the very advanced teaching that Universal Mind is the SOUL OF GOD Further, we showed you how the Universal God-Mind in you connects you with the mar­velous Creative Power~ in your own life and we revealed to you the nature of that Unseen Divine Force which is the ever-present Healing Power of the ages.

In Lesson Four (the Imaging-Power Lesson) we explained to you the three-fold’ secret of IMAGING, CRE­ATING,” and BEING by the use of which you can create or attract to you all, the material Abundance which you really desire.

So. step by step, we have led you from one truth to another logically, and each of these four previous les­sons has helped, to prepare you for this still deeper lesson, number Five.

AVOID ALL STRAIN WHEN YOU STUDY

In the beginning your study of this most important Lesson, just as with all of your Lessons with us, we want to impress upon you once again that all you will absorb these, Dynamic Lessons best when both your mind and your body are entirely at ease. Relax, and again relax, and thus you will enter your periods of study in a receptive frame of mind.

And from the paragraph following the above in Lesson One, entitled, “The Shadow of The Unseen,” these words:

“All material things are but the shadows of the unseen. The garments which clothe that form in your mir­ror are the garments which you thought into your possession—you selected those garments.”

FACE REVEALS CHARACTER

Modern character analysts assure us that our face reveals our character. They inform us that everything about us tells the world what we are.

Of course you desire a successful magnetic and active personality. This requires understanding on your por­tion, so your study must begin with your-self. For purposes of comparison and to analyze the elements of their success, make a careful study of those persons around you who prove in their daily lives that they possess the secret of successful personality.

Right here we do most sincerely assure.you that you can develop and you can cultivate a magnetic and suc­cessful personality. Of course, like every other worth-while accomplishment in life, you must first learn how. That is exactly what this lesson teaches; the How of Attractive Personality.

The first practical step, then, is to once more closely observe yourself in that full-length mirror, this time with a determined purpose of judging, fairly and impartially, just what the impression is that you make upon others at the present time.

SOUL AND MIND PLUS OUTWARD APPEARANCE

Don’t let yourself become confused by the great number of little things or details, which seem to make up an Ideal or an Attractive Personality. -After all, when we analyze the Ideal Personality for which you long, we find that the primary or most important factors of that attractive personality are really comparatively few. Once these few really important factors are acquired, those other seemingly numerous details become yours also. “Divide and conquer” shall be our motto here, so let us divide this problem of magnetic personality into its few really important parts and work them out one part at a time.

Personality has been defined as “soul and mind plus outward appearance.” This greatly simplifies our prob­lem. Now we realize that “soul and mind” can really only manifest to the world about us here through our “outward appearance.” While we cannot always control our soul or our mind we can always choose to a large extent what our outward appearance shall be.

PERSONALITY AND SUCCESS ARE PARTNERS

Personality, then, being the impression you make upon others, is most

There is no “mystery” of life, in reality. This word “mystery” is only used to hide Man’s lack of understand­ing. For instance, let us imagine that here’s a complicated airplane in Now we who do not understand this engine, content ourselves by saying that this engine is a mystery to us. But to one who has learned all about airplane engines and who knows all about this particular engine, there is no mysterious part.

If you never realized until now that this word “mystery” is. only a screen to hide people’s lack of knowledge, perhaps you, too, have been misled and.so have stood in your own light.

To attribute mystery to anything indicates weakness. Knowledge is Power and so that you may be strong, and so that the lamp of sure wisdom may be filled and burning brightly in your life, we place within your hands this price-less instruction.

WHAT IS PERSONALITY

Perhaps you have been confused-by the many and often very confusing ways in which this word Personality is used by different people you have met and by the puzzling and often -senseless ways in which this word is used in print. So, a great amount of mystery has attached itself to this word personality, and of course, “mys­tery” is only another word for lack of understanding.

First, then, let us find out exactly what the word PERSONALITY means. Let us turn to Webster. Webster defines personality as that which distinguishes a person, or the sum total of one’s characteristics, or a compos­ite of emotional tendencies, behavior inclinations and the like.” So much for Mr. Webster.

PERSONALITY - THE IMPRESSION YOU MAKE ON OTHERS

Personality is the impression which you make upon other people.

Your personality, then, determines what other people think about you. Their opinion of you is formed by the impression.which your personality makes upon them.

Strictly speaking, humanity presents only two great classes of personality. Let me tell you a little ‘story, just to illustrate these two great divisions of personality.

This happened one day in the dining room of a large hotel. Two women were lingering at their table for a friendly chat.

My attention was suddenly attracted by this remark from one of these two women, “Look l Here comes Mrs. Smith... isn’t she attractive? My but she is a lucky woman. She just seems to get everything she wants without half trying.

Naturally, I turned to look at the woman with the “personality.” She was just coming into -the room with a group of admiring friends.

Her personality really seemed to fill the room with her presence. Even the waiters were unusually attentive to her. Yet she was not a beautiful woman, and her clothes were neither striking nor costly. But the effect of her personality seemed to set her apart from every other woman in the room. Although I never saw her again, I never forgot this woman, because there was a memory of happiness at having beheld such a radiant personality.

George Eliot must have been thinking of some such magnetic personality when she wrote, “It is always good to know if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.”

The world avoids negative personalities. When I looked more closely at the woman whose remarks I”had overheard’, I saw than hers was that opposite, drab, negative personality which everyone avoids instinctively. She belonged to that great mass of people who were doomed to live. unnoticed and frustrated lives, unless they find themselves. Unnoticed and frustrated because of negative and colorless personality.

This little incident illustrates these two great classes of personality into which all men and women are divid­ed; those who are colorful, interesting and attractive and those who are drab, dull and easily forgotten.

But, you may ask, can anyone possess this attractive personality, or is it a gift presented to a chosen few at birth by a kind Providence.

No Good Friend an attractive personality is not some peculiar gift at birth and it is not limited to the few. Here and now, in this lesson, we shall help you to develop a winning charming, magnetic personality .

FULL LENGTH MIRROR PICTURES OUTER SELF

Now, let us turn to Lesson One and carefully review two paragraphs; first, the paragraph headed 10A Full Length Mirror Pictures Your Thinking, “ from which we quote:

“Here is our first exercise perhaps a startling object lesson. Just pause in your study and go stand before a full length mirror, if possible. If you have no full length mirror in your home, locate one and follow the exer­cise then. Now, with seeing eyes study the picture that is reflected back to you from that mirror.

Does your mirror reflect the sunshine of Success or the shadows of failure, Happiness or gloom, Health or-sickness? Remember, you are looking at the product of your own thinking up-to-date. Your body first existed as a thought.