LESSON no. 8.1

Of course, its accomplishment of your Desire—these are governed by the WA.Y you broadcast from your Mental Radio Station.

THE MAGIC KEY OF LIFE
The dynamic power of your thought coupled to emotion is your magic key to life. When you learn to mag¬nify courage instead o-f fear, how to direct your thought-vibrations, when you. truly, realize the power of The Silence., then you have the magic key that unlocks all doors.
We are teaching you concentration in The Silence—we have taught you how to create your mental pattern, your mind-picture of your Heart’s Desire, and as you practice these two things, you will find that you are acquiring thought vibrations that are almost irresistible as you direct them over your mental Radio.
MENTAL ATTRACTION IS THE LAW OF SUCCESS
Let us here unfold for you the Law of Thought. Images (mental vision)Then you will understand fully how to use that great law, of success, Mental Attraction.
Back of every thought image. is emotion. As we have told you before all things exist in constant vibration. Each emotion has its own different type of vibration. Love, Desire, Joy, Health, Happiness, or Hate, Defeat, Disease and Unhappiness, each exists as a different rate of mental. vibration.
Thus, love-vibrations, Desire-vibrations, joy-vibrations, health-vibrations, happiness-vibrations, etc., each of.these separate vibrations produces its corresponding thought image, (visions. and these thought images orig¬inate: in the inner brain centers and are projected, forth by the electric vibrations of thought-waves to form external images (visions) in your thinking mind.
Great inventors, Sir William Crookes, Marconi, Watts, Bell, Franklin, Edison and a host of others created thought images of their inventions first and afterwards produced them in material form from these mental visions..
In this way, mental vibration born of emotion directs man in his progress through the ages and exactly so will your thought images lead you in the path-way of unfoldment, of success, of health and of happiness when you learn through this secret wisdom which we are imparting to you lesson by lesson how to master and how to direct these subtle thought-vibrations to attract to yourself your Heart’s Desire in reality.
MENTAL ATTRACTION YOUR POWERFUL MAGNET
Previously we have instructed you to mentally picture yourself as a magnet.
Each emotional vibration in your mental world with its accompanying thought images (vision) is a powerful magnet attracting to itself from the outer world every material thing needed to build reality into that particu¬lar thought image of yours.
But no vibratory thought image (vision) exerts the slightest effect upon any material thing, condition or outer circumstances which is itself not vibrating in perfect unity with the vibrations of that thought image. In this case, like attracts like only.
Let’s use a very simple illustration of this psychic law. Imagine that we have in our hand one of those old-fashioned “horse shoe” magnets, strongly magnetized, such as used to delight school-boys of another gener¬ation. Perhaps we are in a carpenter shop. Here are piles of shavings, pieces of brass and copper and zinc and iron slivers and steel screws are scattered here and there in confusion.

We move our horse-shoe magnet here and there among the shavings—nothing happens. We push the pieces of brass, the pieces of copper and brass and zinc we stir here and the re with our magnet—nothing happens. Next we hold our magnet close to the scattered nails and the steel screws and there is instant response—each nail or screw of iron or steel leaps to cling to the magnet, when it reaches it field of receptivity, obeying the immutable law here that like vibrations attracts like vibrations!
Just as Universal Divine Mind, acting through the magnetic power of affinity is ceaselessly working to bring the pure Ray of Light that vibrates within you and within every man and woman in the world into perfect har¬mony with The Infinite Self.
Divine design, divine life and divine power vibrate all around us through-out the entire universe of manifest¬ed Being and now that you are beginning to be-come thoroughly awakened mentally and now that you begin to obey these higher laws you can feel this Divine Power flowing into your body and your mind and renewing every cell within you.
Truly, mental attraction-makes of you a powerful magnet!
USE THIS DIVINE MAGNETISM
Use this Divine Magnetism which is all around you this very moment—that’s what its for! Complete mas¬tery will be yours and your Heart’s Desire will rapidly materialize into reality when you consciously absorb, assimilate and USE this divine magnetism or vital power which pervades all the atmosphere which surrounds this earth! Use this Infinite God-Power!
First, then——Health. By consciously using this vital power, which is gust as near to you as the air you breathe, you will become able to recreate the tissues of your body and to so fortify yourself against disease that you will live in abounding health and that sickness will pass you by untouched.
Then, of a truth—“Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.”
Next, then, Happiness becomes yours to command. Now that you are living the higher life now that you— begin to consciously-attract this magnetic power of The Infinite, each day will bring you a new happiness as you realize your ideal—Your Heart’s Desire—in your material world.
Then the love and the gratitude which will fill your heart will, in turn, act as a magnet to draw new and worth-while friends”within your charmed circle—a circle charmed by the bonds of your new powers to command health, to draw happiness to yourself and to attract money and prosperity.
“FROM THINGS INVISIBLE”
“By faith was the world formed b the word of God, that, FROM THINGS INVISIBLE, visible things might be made.” (Hebrews 11:3)
In each of these dynamic Lessons, in every occult exercise we give you, in each and every antrim, prayer and affirmation that we give to you—in all of these, step by step, we are helping you to develop that Mental Attraction—that One necessary sameness—that Attunement of vibration with this all-pervading Infinite Power of the Invisible that shall transform your vision, your Heart’s Desire, into VISIBLE REALITY here and now.!
While this God-Power which creates “from things invisible, visible things’’ is truly mystical, we:ar.e proving to you that this power of the invisible can and does operate for you in your own life without any of the mys

tifying mental gymnastic:s on your part which the ignorant mistakenly associate with it.
It is simply a matter of using your good common sense and following our easily understood methods exact¬ly—and then with perfect, child-like faith leaving the results entirely to your Infinite Source of Supply— Creative God-Power. That is all!
THREE LAWS OF CONCENTRATION
True, effective concentration surely is an intense form of prayer. In true concentration one “seeks and prays”. Concentration for material wealth (money, property, etc.). for physical health, or for material happiness will inevitably bring to you these exact, real and tangible results in your external world if your motive is to enable yourself to serve humanity better or to improve, even develop and evolve your own creative self, but beware any motive that is purely selfish of reason or for self elevation and vanity only. Such motives will sure¬ly defeat your Psychic powers of attraction.
The three great laws which govern successful concentration for physical health, for personal happiness or for financial ease and wealth are these:

ONE—PHYSICAL RELAXATION
TWO—MENTAL PASSIVITY
THREE—ATTENTION FOCUSED UPON YOUR ONE GREAT DESIRE.
Simple as they seem to you, we want to impress these great basic laws of concentration upon your attention. Now you can understand more fully the occult reasons—for your regular evening concentration periods and for the methods we have given you for observing these periods.
This definite period each night for your “inner contemplation”—if you have observed these periods faith¬fully—is already doubtless beginning to work wonders in your visible world.
What is the power that has created a million spheres and that keeps these spheres (worlds) endlessly whirling in space?
We declare to you that this Power is Universal Divine Mind, this is the psychic, invisible Power in all exis¬tence which can create matter in the thinking of the brain or the twinkling of the eye, out of the Invisible and then set that matter into ageless motion either as a world or as a pebble. This is the intelligent, creative Cosmic God-Mind which you draw unto yourself in each of your concentration periods. Also, this power is available at any hour and in any I place-wherever and whenever you follow these three simple but great Laws of Concentration.
THIS IS THE LIGHT THAT HEALS
If you are sick, there is abundant healing for you in the teachings of these lessons. Of a truth, you can be so well!. And now we impart to you in these lessons the tremendous secret of focusing this all-powerful mys¬tic light to heal your body just as the sublime sunshine dissolves the darkness of night!
In attracting to yourself perfect health from your Infinite Source of Health, never let your mind dwell on the afflicted condition of any part of your body. Vision that part of your body just as you want it to be. See your body glowing with health, life and color. As you visualize this, you will feel a general toning up in your entire bodily system. Try it! Do it!

Disease breeds in darkness, either of the mind or of the surroundings Light displaces darkness; Light destroys disease! Light disperses darkness—reality disperses unreality. Light is a high rate of vibration; disease, a very low rate.
Do this during your concentration periods. Picture God in the White Light of His Spirit focused upon the afflicted part of your body. With your eyes closed mentally vision and radiate this part of your body with this DIVINE LIGHT for your entire fifteen minute period, if you are afflicted. By conscious attraction, you cen¬ter this Divine Light upon your affliction. You can practice this three, possibly four times a day, until you have evidence of healing. The good results will—be surprisingly rapid. Just what you believe when you visualize it, the White Light of the Spirit does I This is the answer of The Supreme Light to your intense Faith. It works!
Be exact and be intensely earnest when you use this method, which is one of the rarest secrets of the Ancient Wisdom.
“BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW”
That is the title of your.next lesson, number nine, a series of revealing truths that will astound you and which will show you that you are a cumulative being, and therefore you are capable of unlimited development, and that you are even now drawing to yourself unlimited abundance and unlimited happiness.
We teach you how your vital forces can be altered, modified or intensified beyond belief, according to the desires of your own active, reasoning will.
OUR ABIDING WISH FOR YOU
Here we must regretfully say Goodbye until your next lesson. Our abiding wish for you is that we shall be able to awaken within you a knowledge of your rightful heritage and that we. may help to endow you with those priceless possess-ions which fire cannot consume and which do not vanish away from time, Health, Happiness,_ and Financial Abundance.` All of_these are simply evolved from the changeless principles of Truth, the Creative God-Power which we are teaching you. Good-bye for now, Good Friend.

LESSONNO.9

LESSON no. 8

LESSONNO.8
THE PATHWAY TO PERSONAL POWER

“I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision... (Paul, Acts 26:19) BUILDING YOUR VISION INTO REALITY
This is your most impressive and unforgettable lesson, number eight, in which you are led many, many steps upward along the Pathway.
The purpose of this very deep and powerful lesson is to bring to you more fully the startling truth that not only are you endowed with latent (sleeping) talents, faculties and forces that know no bounds of possibility, but that working with you and at your conscious command is Universal Divine Mind. This Universal, Divine Mind is that invisible ocean of cosmic energy that touches your life on every hand, once you admit this truth into your conscious thinking, and from which you can draw personal power that will build reality into your vision (or picture) of your Heart’s Desire.
BRIEF REVIEW OF LESSONS SIX AND SEVEN
The central concepts of lesson six, you will remember, taught you how to realize and how to demonstrate in your own life, day by day, the ever increasing power of that Secret of the Ages which dwells within you, only awaiting development through your conscious recognition to bring your Heart’s Desire from the invisible.
Briefly, the high concept of lesson seven was to awaken you to a conscious awareness and realization that you have at your command an invisible dynamic force, sleeping talents and powers that will thoroughly trans-form your life into health, happiness and success once they are tuned into harmony with that Great Power-Station, Universal Divine Mind.
BUILDING YOUR VISION
Of course, the “vision” we refer to in the use of this word is your mental picture of your Heart’s Desire, that picture which reflects that, for which you most greatly long, which you most deeply desire and which to you represents Life’s highest attainment.
Within your reach and within the reach of every other man and woman is this vast reservoir of power await¬ing only their conscious demand to transform each life of suffering, failure and unhappiness into abounding health, abundant success and very real joyousness. As you recognize this tremendous truth and as your men¬tal awareness of the thought-vision of your Heart’s Desire draws Creative Power from Universal Divine Mind even now—this moment—which is surging through your mind, through your body and through the depths of your soul, to establish in your daily life the reality of your mental picture—your cherished vision
Pitiful and desolute indeed is the poverty and the hopeless lot of people who live without vision! People without even one mental picture of health, of happiness or of good fortune into which to build reality. How truly Solomon exclaimed in Holy Writ so long ago, “Where there is no vision (no mental picture), the people perish...” (Proverbs 29:18).

THE SUPREME BUILDS IN SILENCE
Throughout this course of lessons we shall continue to impress upon you the extreme importance of Silence in all your metaphysical exercises, your mental picturing and your progress along the secret Pathway to attain¬ment.
You will share the common experience of all our students, which is that the further you travel along this Pathway to inner enfoldment, the less talkative you will become.
Perhaps you will remember that in your early days, when you were very young, when you encountered a new truth, or some vision of endeavor that seemed great to you, came before your untrained eyes, your new-found enthusiasm made you feel that you just had to rush out and tell everybody you met all about it! Youth gives forth plenty of sure cures for all the ills of earth and is always prone to paint glowing pictures of future achievements and tells in many words of glorious conquests—to be. And then, by and by, Youth, staggering under the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, “ learns perhaps to be a bit less talkative!
Hence, the philosophy of these lessons teaches you the merits and the power of well-chosen silence. You have a great goal of achievement ahead, a self-chosen goal, your Great Desire, so you will find the greatest benefit in Silence, because the Supreme Intelligence builds in the Silence.
Let us explain that when you say; for instance, “I’m going to try to tell others, who are probably either unsympathetic or envious, all about your proposed plans, you are only releasing and scattering into thin air those precious energies which should be used in your metaphysical “work” and your concentration periods in The Silence.”
ESCAPE FROM REALITY SCATTERS ENERGY
Within every man and every, woman there are two very definite and very distinct urges or mental trends. First there is what we shall call the “regressive” urge, which is strong and also very subtle, usually so hidden that we are perhaps totally unconscious of this regressive urge, which always works to pull us back from true effort and from action.
This is, in reality, -a covert desire to escape from reality. Regression mentally recedes toward childhood’s dream-world of protection.,
The other and more conscious urge you will very readily recognize within yourself in your daily life—that is the urge to action, to self-expression, to meet and master your world and to enjoy your own wort while Destiny!
For example, the “confessional” of some religions is based entirely upon a thorough understanding of this hidden but almost universal longing to escape from reality. Technically this process, as illustrated by the “con¬fessional, is called the “catharsis,” which literally means, “throwing off.” In the confessional suppressed ener¬gies and emotions connected with thought-images of guilt, remorse, shame, defeat, failure, anxiety and fear are thrown off through words. The energies, freed from direct action by Ideas or Emotions in this process of “talking it out, “ EVAPORATE INTO THIN AIR! And in passing, it makes not the slightest difference to whom this “throw-off’” is made!
In this illustration there is a very great lesson for you, My Friend. The same law which applies to these dark and unpleasant wishes, images-and memories “thrown off ” in the confessional, applies equally to the attrac
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tive, the positive, the constructive powers of the Mind. Your Great Desire, your Great Destiny, your Life Plan—all , carry unexpressed energies and powerful drives which will be scattered to the four winds of heav¬en if you go about telling others all about your ambitions and your occult work, a complete “throwing off!
AVOIDING NEGATIVE VIBRATIONS
By keeping your own counsel, by keeping silent about your work, your plans and your progress you will eas¬ily avoid negative vibrations from others. These negative vibrations might-very possibly come from friends or even really close relatives, because the common mistake your daily associates usually make is in judging your future capacity by your past lack of success.
Remember, when none around you know anything about what you are working for or how you are bringing these miracles to pass in your life, you do not have to overcome their belief that “It can’t be done!”
Cherish your-vision in the Silence——conserve your energies for your attunement, for your mental exercis¬es and for your receptive periods of aloneness with Infinite Divine Mind.
A TIME FOR WORDS AND A TIME FOR SILENCE
There are times for words and there are times for silence. You will truly learn these times for yourself.
Let us consider this matter from another angle. You now have a great, a definite purpose in life, You have chosen to build reality into your Heart’s Desire. To this end, and under our direction, you are constantly, con¬tinuously visualizing. In doing this, you are painting a picture upon the inner planes of your own conscious¬ness AND upon the sublime, the invisible, the inmost plane, of Universal God - Mind. Sooner or later this inner picture will be reflected in outer, material FORM! Now, until you have this inner picture of yours sharply drawn, clearly defined and fully developed, any discussion of this picture or of this occult process with others will only tend to scatter and dissolve the results of your visualizing.
Only describe or discuss your inner picture with members whom you know will join wholeheartedly with you to help you materialize your vision.
“THOUGHTSARETHINGS...”
This is literally true. Thoughts are things. Each thought you think is a force, an energy, a power that is sent out from your brain in the form of waves of vibrations. These thought-vibrations have the power of awaken¬ing and attracting similar vibrations in that clearly vast storehouse of Infinite Supply that surrounds us every-where.
This Game condition is true of PEOPLE everywhere. All are either affected or controlled by these thought-waves, depending upon the power of the mental-vibrations you send out. You are a Mental Radio Station— but remember, so is every other man and woman in the world. All are SENDING and RECEIVING con¬stantly, rarely consciously but almost always without realizing that they are “on the air ”
So, you can readily see that the POSITIVE THINKER (the dynamic powerful mental radio) wins his or her Heart’s Desire, whereas people with negative minds liken themselves to failure because theirs is only wishful thinking sent out idly, fearfully and doubtingly.
For this reason we are teaching you-plainly, in these deeply instructive lessons, a complete knowledge of the basic, the fundamental laws of that phenomenon we call your Mental Radio and how to project your Desire-Thoughts by your trained Will and thus materialize your desire.