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.