The Secret of Success (1908) by William Walker Atkinson

The Secret of success by William Walker Atkinson a course of nine lessons on the subject of the application of the latent powers of the individual toward attainment of success in life read by Adam Hannon originally published 1908 lesson one The Secret of success it is with some hesitation that we bring ourselves to write this little book entitled The Secret of success not that we are not in sympathy with the Subject not that we do not believe that there is a secret of success but because there has been so much written on the subject of success

that is the various twaddle masses of platitudinous wordiness that we hesitate to take the position of a teacher of success it is so easy to fill pages of paper with good advice it is so much easier to say things than to do them so much easier to formulate a code of precepts than to get out into the field Of active Endeavor and put into practice the same precepts and you may imagine why we hesitate to assume a role which would lay US Open to the suspicion of being one of the do as I tell you

and not as I do teachers of the art of success but there is another side of the question there is besides the mere recital of a list of good qualities leading to success a list with which every school boy and reader of the Magazines is acquainted a something else and that something else is a suggestion that the Seeker for Success has a something within himself which if expressed into activity and action will prove of Great Value to him a veritable secret of success instead of a code of rules and so we propose to devote this

little book to unfolding our idea of what this something within is and what it will do for one who will unfold it and thus express it into action so Therefore do not expect to find this book a complete compendium of rules conducive to success approved of and formulated by the successful men of the world who became acquainted with these rules only after they had attained success and consequently had time and inclination to preach to others this is not a book of that sort it is quite different we hope you will like it it will do

you good in any event all people are striving and Seeking success their idea of success May differ but they have all agreed upon the desirability of attainment attainment that is the word which embodies the essence of that which we call success it is the getting there idea the idea of attainment of reaching the goal for which we set out that is the story attainment many men and women have endeavored to point out the way to success and while some have rendered Valuable service to those who were following them on the path of attainment yet none

have been able to tell the whole story of success and this is not to be wondered at for the reason that on the road to success each and every individual must be in a measure a law unto himself or herself no two temperaments are exactly alike nature Delights in variety no two sets of circumstances are precisely the same infinite variety Manifests here also and so it would be Folly to attempt to lay down rules of universal application which would surely lead all to the great goal of success one has but to look around him on

all sides and see the different needs of the different individuals composing the crowd in order to recognize the futility of any attempt to lay down lines of universal instruction on this subject each and every man who has Succeeded eded has done so in a different way generally along some original lines of action in fact The Faculty or characteristic known as individuality seems to have played an important part in the success of the majority of persons who have attained it and individuality renders those possessing it to a marked degree to be likely to depart from any

set rules or laid out courses of action and so it may be stated as a general principle that Each must work out his own success along the lines of his own individuality rather than by following any set rule or line of Conduct in view of what we have just said it may seem strange that feeling as we do we have ventured to write a little book entitled The Secret of success particularly as we have started the said book by declaring the impossibility of laying down any set rules on the subject this may seem like a

paradox but a Little examination will show you that it is not so it is true that we believe that each and every person must work out his own success along the lines of his own individuality instead of along some cut and dried plan and right here is where the secret of success comes in along the lines of his own individuality we have just said then it must follow that one must Possess individuality before he may work along its lines and in the measure that he possesses individuality so will he possess the first prerequisite to success

and that is what we mean by The Secret of success individuality every person person possesses dormant and latent individuality but only a few allow it to Express itself the majority of us are like human sheep trotting along complacently after some self assertive bellweather whose tinkling Bell serves to guide our footsteps we have absorbed the notion somehow that these Bell weathers possess the sum and substance of human knowledge and power and ability to think and instead of unfolding our own dormant powers and latent possibilities we allow them to remain in Obscurity and we Trot along joggy

joggy jog after our pet bellweather people are very much like sheep in this way they are obedient and imitative animals and rather than assume the responsibility of directing their own footsteps they wait until someone takes the lead and then a way they stampede after him is it any wonder that the leaders claim the choicest pickings for themselves and allow the flock to get only the scrubby grass not a bit of It they have earned the choice bits by reason of the lock of individuality and initiative on the part of those following them in fact they

were chosen as Leaders because of this self- assertive and self-directive quality if they stood back in a modest mild manner they would have been pushed aside by the flock who would disclaim them as leaders in favor of others who knew how to push to the front now in this little book we shall Not Endeavor to awaken a spirit of bellweather ism in you nor to urge you to strive to lead the flock there is nothing in the mere leading of people other than vain glory and Petty self-satisfaction the desirable thing is to possess sufficient individuality

and initiative to be your own bellweather to be a law unto yourself so far as other men are concerned the Great Men the strong men care nothing for the flock which so Obediently trots along after them they derive No Satisfaction from this thing which pleases only inferior minds and gratifies only Petty natures and ambitions the big men the great spirits of all ages have derived more satisfaction from that inward conviction of strength and ability which they felt unfolding into activity within themselves than in the plaits of the mob or in the cility of those imitative

creatures who sought to Follow in their footsteps and this thing called individuality is a real thing inherent in each of us and which may be developed and brought into activity in each one of us if we go about it right individuality is the expression of our self that self which is what we mean when we say I each of us is an individual an eye differing from every other eye in the universe so far as personal expression Is concerned and in the measure that we express and unfold the powers of that eye so are we

great strong and successful we all have it in US it depends upon us to get it out into expression and this individual expression lies at the heart of the secret of success and that is why we use the term and that is what we shall tell you about in this little book it will pay you to learn this Secret Lesson two the individual in our last lesson we stated that we considered the secret of success to consist principally of the free expression of the individual the eye but before you will be able to apply this

idea successfully you must first awaken to a realization of what the individual the ey within you really is this statement may appear a ridiculous first to many of you but it will pay you to acquaint yourself fully With the idea behind it for upon the true realization of I comes power if you will stop and take stock of yourself you will find that you are a more complex being than you had at first considered yourself to be in the first place there is the I which is the real self or the individual and there is

the me which is something attached to and belonging to the eye the personality for proof of this let the I take stock of the me and it will find That the latter consists of three phases or principles in other words one the physical body two the vital energy three the Mind many people are in the habit of regarding their bodies as the eye part of them but a little consideration will show them that the body is but a material covering or machine through which and by means of which the eye is able to manifest itself

a little thought will show that one may be vividly Conscious of the I am part of himself while totally oblivious of the presence of the physical body this being so it follows that the eye is independent of the body body and that the latter falls into the me classification the physical body may exist after the eye has left it the dead body is not the eye the physical body is composed of countless particles which are changing places every moment of our lives our Body of today is entirely different from our body of a year ago

then comes the second principle of the me the vital energy or what many call life this is seen to be independent of the body which it energizes but it too is transitory and changeable and readily may be seen to be but a something used to animate and energize the body an instrument of the eye and therefore a principle of the Me what then is left to the eye to examine and determine its nature the answer that comes naturally to the lips is the Mind by which I know the truth of what you have just said

but stop a moment you have said speaking of the Mind by which I know have you not in saying this acknowledged the mind to be a something through which the eye acts think a moment is the mind you you are aware that your mental States change Your emotions vary your feelings differ from time to time your very ideas and thoughts are inconsistent and are subject to outside influences or else are molded and governed by that which you call I or your real self then there must be something behind mental States ideas feelings thoughts Etc which

is superior to them and which knows them just as one knows a thing apart from itself but which it Uses you say I feel I think I believe I know I will etc etc now which is the real self the mental States just mentioned or the ey which is the subject or real cause of the mental phenomena it is not the mind that knows but the the eye which uses the mind in order to know this may seem a little abstruse to you if you have never made a study of the subject but think it

over a little And the idea will clearly Define itself in your mind we are not telling you these things merely to give you an idea of metaphysics philosophy or psychology there are many books that go into these matters at length and in detail so it is not for that reason the real reason is that with a realization of the ey or real self comes a sense of power that will manifest through you and make you strong The Awakening to a realization of The eye in its clearness and vividness will cause you to feel a sense

of being and power that you have never before known before you can express individuality you must realize that you are an individual and you must be aware of this eye within you before you can realize that you are an individual the me side of you is what is called personality or the outer appearance of Yourself your personality is made up of countless characteristics traits habits of thought expression and motion it is a bunch of peculiarity and personal traits that you have been thinking was the real eye all this time but it is not do you

know what the idea of Personality arose from let us tell you turn to the pages of any good dictionary and you will see that the word originated from the Latin word Persona meaning a mask used by actors in ancient times and which word In turn was derived from two other words sonar meaning to sound and per meaning through the two words combined meaning to sound through the idea being that the voice of the actor sounded through the mask of the assumed personality or character Webster gives the following as one of the meanings of person even

to this day a character or part as in a play an assumed character so then personality means the part you are playing in the great play Of life on the stage of the universe the real individual concealed behind the mask of personality is you the real self the eye that part of you which you are conscious when you say I am which is your assertion of existence and latent power individual means something that cannot be divided or subtracted from something that cannot be injured or hurt by outside forces something real and you are an individual

a real Self an i something endowed with life mind and power to use as you will a poet named or has said of it Lord of a thousand worlds am I and I reain since time began and night and day in cyclic sway Shall Pass while their deeds I scan yet time shall cease a I find release for I am the soul of man lesson three spiritedness to many of you the title of this lesson spiritedness may seem to have some connection with spirit Disembodied entities or else the soul or some higher part of it

to which the name spirit is often applied but in this case we use the word in a different sense and yet in a sense approved by many Advanced teachers and investigators of the occult and spiritual one of the meanings of the word Spirit as given by Webster is as follows energy vivacity ardor enthus enthusiasm courage Etc while the same Authority defines the word spirited as Animated full of life and vigor Lively Etc these definitions will give you a hint of the sense in which we are now using the term but there is still more to

it to us the word Spirit expresses the idea of the real essential nature of the Universal Power and which is also manifest Ed in man as the center of his being his essential strength and power from whence proceeds all that renders him an individual spiritedness does not mean The quality of being ethereal goody goody spiritual otherworldly or anything of that sort it means the state of being animated and animated means possessed of life and vigor so that the state is really that of being filled with power and life and that power and life comes from

the very center of one's being the I am region or plane of mind and Consciousness spiritedness is manifested in different degrees among different men and even among the animals it is an Elementary fundamental primitive quality and expression of life and does not depend upon culture refinement or education it's devel development seems to depend upon such instinctive or intuitional recognition of the something within the power of the individual which is derived from that Universal Power of which we are all expressions and even some of the animals seem to possess it a recent writer on The Taming

of animals expresses Instinctive realization of spiritedness among some of the higher animals as follows put two male baboons in the same cage and they will open their mouths show all their teeth and blow at each other but one of them even though he may possess the uglier dentici will blow with a difference with an inward shakiness that marks him as the underdog at once no test of battle is needed at all it is the same with the big cats put two or Four or a dozen lions together and they also probably without a single contest

will soon discover which one of them possesses the metal of the master thereafter he takes the choice of the meat if he chooses the rest shall not even begin to eat until he has finished he goes first to the fresh pan of water in short he is King of the cage now then when a Tamer goes into a den with a big cat that has taken a a notion to act funny his attitude is almost Exactly that of the king Beast above mentioned would be toward a subject rash and ill- advised enough to challenge his

kingship you will notice in the above quotation that the writer states clearly that it is not always the baboon with the fiercest tusks that is the master neither does the king lion necessarily assert his Dominion by winning a physical fight it is something far more subtle than the physical it is the manifestation of some soul quality of The animal and so it is with men it is not always the biggest and strongest physically who rule the ruler becomes so by reason of the mysterious Soul quality which we call spiritedness and which men often call nerve

or metal or sand when two individuals come into contact with each other there is a mental struggle begun from which one or the other emerges a Victor and one defeated there is no physical struggle There may not be even a word uttered and yet Soul grapples with soul as the two pairs of eyes gaze into each other and a subtle something in each engages and grapples with a subtle something in the other it may be all over in a moment but the conflict is settled for the time and each of the mental combatants knows that

he is Victor or defeated as the case may be there may be no feeling of antagonism between the parties engaging but nevertheless there seems to be an inward Recognition on both sides that there is something between them that has to be settled at once the parties may become the best of friends and yet one of them always leads and this leadership does not depend upon physical strength intellectual attainment or culture in the ordinary sense but upon the manifestation and recognition of that subtle quality that we have called Spirit people unconsciously assert their recognition of quality

in themselves and Others by their use of the term we often hear of people lacking spirit being spiritless and of others having had their Spirit broken Etc the term is is used in the sense of metal a metaled horse or man is high-spirited according to the dictionaries and the same authorities Define metalum as full of spirit so you see the term is used as we have employed it but the explanation of the source of the spiritedness is not given breeders Of thoroughbread racing horses will tell you that a horse having spirit will run a gamer

race and will often out distance and out wind a horse having higher physical characteristics but less Spirit or class Horsemen insist that the possession of spirit in a horse is recognized by the other horses who are affected by it and become discouraged and allow themselves to be beaten although often they may be better racing Machines physically this spirit is a fundamental vital strength POS possessed by all living things in degrees and it may be developed and strengthened in oneself in our next lesson we shall recite a few instances of its manifestation among men Oliver Wendell

Holmes in one of his books gives the following Vivid description of the conflict of spiritedness between two Men the Coor's face turned so white with rage that his blue black mustache fash and beard looked fearful against it he grinned with wrath and caught at a tumbler as if he would have thrown its contents at the speaker the young marylander fixed his clear steady eye upon him and laid his hand on his arm carelessly almost but the jewel felt that he could not move it it was no use the youth was his master and in a

deadly Indian hug in which men wrestle with Their eyes over in five seconds but which breaks one of their two backs and is good for three score years and 10 one trial enough settles the whole matter just as when two feathered songsters of the Barnyard game and dungill come together after a jump or two at each other and a few sharp kicks there is an end to it and it is after you mure with the beaten party and all the social relations for all the rest of his days father gills says Emily Bronte Sketched out

her ideal of a being possessed of immense willpower in a thorough Ruffian heathcliffe a massive muscular brute well it was a girl's conception of a strong man but I think I have seen some quiet inoffensive looking men in spectacles who could very soon have shown the Ruffian where the superiority delay a celebrated historical example of spiritedness under apparently overwhelming odds is that of the Interview between Hugo Bishop of Lincoln and Richard Kur de Leon in the Church of Ros dandeli in his desire to prosecute the war in Normandy Richard demanded additional supplies and money from

his Barons and Bishops but Hugo refused to furnish men or money he claimed that although though the Sea of Lincoln was legally bound to supply men and money for military service within the four seas of Britain the war in Normandy did Not come under that head and he defied the King King Richard called the lionhearted was a dangerous man to defy and so when he summoned Bishop Hugo to Normandy and the latter went forth to bearded the lion in his den few doubted the outcome and The Bishop's downfall was taken as a matter of course

when the bishop landed in Normandy he was met by two friendly Barons who informed him that the King was in a terrible rage against him and Advised him to send some humble conciliatory message to him before entering the Royal presence but the bishop refused to do this and proceeded boldly to meet his Monarch Richard was sitting at Mass when the bishop entered Hugo walked up to him and disregarding his frown said kiss me my Lord King Richard turned wrathfully away withholding his salute but Hugo gazing into his eyes and shaking the Royal shoulder vigorously repeated

his Demand thou Hast not deserved it roared the king in anger and Chagrin I have retorted Hugo shaking the Royal shoulder the harder the king gradually dropped his eyes from those of the bishop and gave the kingly salute and kiss and the bishop passed on calmly to take part in the service Hugo afterward defied the king in his Council chamber and persisted in his refusal and even ventured to rebuke his royal master for infidelity to the Queen the council was astounded for knowing Richard's courage and fiery temper they expected to see Hugo crushed in a

moment but instead he emerged the Victor in the struggle of spiritedness the historian says the lion was tamed for the moment the king acknowledged nothing but restrained his passion remarking afterward if all Bishops were like my lord of Lincoln not a prince among us could lift his head among Them and this was not the first time that this Dy Bishop of Lincoln had vanquished a king in his earlier days shortly after King Henry plantagen had created him Bishop he became involved in a fierce dispute with that Monarch Henry was at Woodstock Park surrounded by his

courtier when Hugo approached the king feigned not to see the bishop taking no notice whatsoever of him after a few moments of strained silence the bishop pushing aside a Powerful Earl who was seated by the king's side took his place beside the king the king pretended to be mending his leather glove the bishop cheerfully and lightly said your majesty reminds me of your cousin at FES FES was the place at which Henry's ancestor Duke Robert met Arata the daughter of a Tanner of leather Who Bore him his illegitimate son who was afterward known as William

the Conqueror The Bishop's impudent illusion To the king ancestry was too much for the latter and he was badly worsted in the encounter and later exceeded to the wishes of the bishop but as fathergill truly says it is a great mistake to suppose that this will is disposed to a itself on All Occasions far from it it often has a tendency to conceal itself and is not rarely found under an exterior of much pleasantness there are men and women too Who present an appearance of such Politeness that they seem to have no will of their

own they apparently exist merely to do what is agreeable to others but just wait till the time comes and then the latent willpower is revealed and we find under this velvet glove the iron hand and no mistake about it it is the secret of the diplomatist tand possessed it to a remarkable degree and was a cool bold successful diplomat kavor also possessed this power and used it wisely the Blusterer and bragger are devoid of it it is a subtle tenuous power resting latent beneath the surface and out of evidence but when needed it flashes forth

like the dynamic electric spark driving all before it it is an elemental force of irresistible power Lesson Four latent Powers the majority of you know by actual experience in everyday life that we have within our physical organism that which we call Second Wind we have Essayed some physical task and after a bit found ourselves winded that is short of breath and we are tempted to stop and rest our panting bodies but we have also found by experience that if we will stick to the task at hand the feeling of physical distress will usually pass away

and we will gain what is called our second wind now just what this second wind is is a matter that has long perplexed physiologists and even today they have Not been able to hand us down a very good guess at the underlying cause of the phenomenon it seems to to be a fresh start acquired by reason of the opening up of reserved stores of vital energy latent physical power stored away for such emergencies all persons who have engaged in athletic sports know very well the details of this peculiar physiological phenomenon its actuality is too firmly

Established to admit any doubt and as is often the case examination shows a curious parallel between the working of nature on the mental plane and on the physical just as there is a physical Second Wind so is there a mental Reserve force or latent energy upon which we can draw and thus get a fresh start the phenomena attendant upon physical Second Wind as noted above is almost exactly duplicated by certain mental Phenomena we may be jaded while performing some tedious bit of mental work and we begin to feel that we are all in when low

some new interest arises some new incentive presents itself and away we are off with a full mental Second Wind doing our work with a freshness Vigor and enthusiasm far surpassing the original effort we have tapped into a fresh Source supply of mental energy the majority of us have little or no no conception of the Reserve mental energies and forces contained within our being we jog along at our customary gate thinking that we are doing our best and getting all out of life that there is in it think we are expressing ourselves to our utmost capacity

but we are living only in the first wind mental state and behind our working mentality are stores of wonderful mental energy and power fact faculties lying dormant power lying latent awaiting the magic command of the Will in order to awaken into activity and outward expression we are far greater beings than we have realized we are giants of power if we did but know it many of us are like young elephants that allow themselves to be Mastered by weak men and put through their Paces little dreaming of the mighty strength and power concealed within their organisms

those of you who have read our little manual intitled the inner Consciousness will recall what we said therein regarding the regions above and below the plane of the ordinary outer Consciousness and on those hidden planes of the Mind are Untold possibilities the raw materials for Mighty mental tasks and achievement the storage batteries of wonderful accomplishment the trouble with us is that we do not realize the existence of these faculties we think that we are merely What we manifest in our ordinary dog Trot gate another trouble is that we have not had the incentive to take

action we have lacked the interest to do great things we haven't wanted to hard enough this want to hard enough is the great inciting power in life desire is the fire which Rouses up the steam of will without incentive and that means desire we accomplish nothing given the great Earnest burning Ardent desire as an animating Force the great incentive to action and we are able to get up this mental Second Wind yes third fourth and fifth winds tapping one plane of inward power after another until we work mental Miracles we wonder at the achievements of

the great men in all walks of life and we are apt to excuse ourselves by the sad remark that these people seem to have it in them while we have not nonsense we all have it in us to do things aund times Greater than we are doing the trouble is not in the lack of power and mental mat material but in the desire and interest and incentive to arouse into activity those wonderful storehouses of dynamic power within our mentality we fail to call into operation the great mental second wind that is at our disposal and

which is like all other natural powers and forces eager and anxious to be manifested and expressed yes that's what we said Anxious and eager for all natural forces penned up and in a static condition seem to be bursting with desire to manifest and express into outer Dynamic activity this seems to be a law of life and nature nature and all in it seems to be eager for active expression have you not been surprised at yourselves at times when under some slightly higher pressure and incentive something within you seemed to break its Bounds and fairly carry

you off of your feet in its rush into active work have you not accomplished tasks under the stress of a sudden urgent need that you would have deemed impossible In Cold Blood have you not carried all before you when you warmed up to the task whereas your ordinary self would have stood around doing nothing under ordinary circumstances earnestness and enthusiasm are two great factors in bringing into operation these Latent forces and dormant powers of the mentality but one need not stand by and wait until you work yourself into a fit of fervor before the energies

spring into action you can by a careful training of the will or rather by a carefully training of yourself use your will manage to get hold of the mental throttle so that you may pull it down and turn on a full head of steam whenever necessary and when you have once Mastered this you will find that you are not any more tired when running Under full pressure than when you are crawling along this being one of the secrets of success to many a person the term the will means merely a firm steadfastness of Mind akin

to determination and fixity of purpose to others it means something like desire to others it means The Power of Choice Etc but to occultists the will is something far more than these things it Means a vital power an acting force of the Mind capable of dominating and ruling the other mental faculties as well as projecting itself beyond the mental organs of the individual and affecting others coming within its field of influence and it is in this sense that we use the word will in this lesson we have no desire to take the reader into the

dim Realms of metaphysics or even into the lighter but Still arduous Paths of scientific psychology but we must acquaint him with the fact of the existence of this thing that we call will power and its relation to the eye of all the mental faculties or powers that of the will is the closest to the eye or ego of the person it is the sword of power clasped in the hand of the ego one may divorce himself in thought from the other mental faculties and States but when he thinks of the eye he is bound to

think of it as possessing that power which we call will the will is a primal original Power of the eye which is always with it from the beginning and which will remain with it until the end it is the force with which he rules or should rule his mental and physical Kingdom the power of which his individuality manifests itself upon the outside World desire is the great Motive Power inciting the will to action in life as we have shown you the action of will without the Motive Power of Desire is Unthinkable and there therefore it

follows that the culture and right direction of Desire carries with it the channel of expression and manifestation of the will you cultivate certain Desires in order that the Will May flow out along these channels by cultivating the desire along Certain lines you are making channels along which the Will May flow in its Rush toward expression and manifestation so be sure to map out your desire channels clearly L by making the proper mental images of what you want be sure and make the desire channels deep and clearcut by the force of repeated attention and auto suggestion

history is filled with examples of men who have developed the use of the will we say developed the use Rather than developed will for man does not develop his will his will is always there ready for use a man develops his ability to use the will perfects himself in its use we have frequently used the following illustration and have not been able to improve upon it man is like a trolley car with the upraised trolley pole of his mind reaching out to the live wire of will along that wire is Flowing the current of willpower

which It Taps and draws down into his mind and by which he is able to move and act and manifest power but the power is always in the wire and his developing consists in the ability to raise the pole to the wire and thus tap onto its energy if you will carry this idea in your mind you will be able to apply this truth more easily in your everyday life a great promoter of the steel pen and electroplating industries possesses this quality to a marked Degree it has been said of him that he had to

begin with a strong powerful almost irresistible will and whoever and whatever he opposed he surely conquered in the end buckon said the longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men between the feeble and the powerful the Great and the insignificant is energy in vincible determination a purpose once fixed and the Victory or death that quality will Do anything that can be done in this world and no talents no circumstances no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it in this last quotation and the one preceding it the

idea of persistence and determination is identified closely with that of Will and they are closely identified the idea being that the will should be held close fast and steadily against the task to be accomplished just as the steel chisel is held firmly up Against the object on the lathe until its work is accomplished it is not the mere determination or persistency that does the work these would be of no avail unless the will were there to do the cutting and shaping but then again there was a double aspect of will here the will in one

phase does the work while in another it forces the mind to hold it up against the task so in a sense the will is the Power back of determination and persistency as well as the force doing the work The Cutting Edge of the Chisel as well as the firm hand that holds it to its work Simpson has said a passionate desire and an unwear will can perform impossibilities or what would seem to be such to the cold and feeble Israeli said I have brought Myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with

a Settled purpose must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment Foster says it is wonderful how even the casualties of Life seem to bow to a spirit that will not bow to them and yield to subserve a design which they may in their first apparent tendency threaten to frustrate when a firm decisive spirit is recognized it is curious to see how the space clears around a man and leaves him room and Freedom Mitchell has said resolve is what makes a man manifest not puny resolve not

crude determination not errant purpose but that strong and indefatigable will which Treads down difficulties and danger as a boy Treads down the heaving Frost lands of winter which Kindles his eye and brain with a proud pulse beat toward the unattainable will makes men Giants so raise that mental trolley pole and touch the Live Wire of will Lesson five Soul Force you often have heard the word enthusiasm used have used it often yourself but have you ever thought of what the word really means from what source it originated what is its essential Spirit few have the

word enthusiasm is derived from the Greek term meaning to be inspired to be possessed by the gods Etc the the term having been originally used to designate the mental state of an inspired person Who seems to be under the influence of a higher power the term originally meant inspired by a superhuman or divine power ecstasy Etc it is now used according to Webster in the sense of enkindled and kindling fervor of Soul Ardent and imaginative Zeal or interest Lively manifestation of Joy or Zeal Etc the word has acquired a secondary and unfavorable meaning in the

sense of visionary Zeal imaginative fervor Etc But its real and primary meaning is that Ardent Lively Zeal and interest in a thing which seems to awaken into activity some inner forces of one's Nature real enthusiasm means a powerful mental state exerted in favor of or against some idea a person filled with enthusiasm seems indeed to be inspired by some power or being higher than himself he Taps on to a source of power of which he is not ordinarily conscious and the Result is that he becomes as a great magnet radiating attractive force in all directions

and influencing those within his field of influence for enthusiast m is contagious and when really experienced by the individual renders him a source of inductive power and a center of mental influence but the power with which he is filled does not come from an outside Source it comes from certain inner regions of his mind or soul from his Inner Consciousness those who have read our little manual entitled inner Consciousness will readily understand from what part of the mentality such power is derived enthusiasm is really Soul power and when genuine is so recognized and felt by

those coming within its field of influence without a certain amount of enthusiasm no one ever has attained success and never will do so there is no Power in personal intercourse that can be compared to enthusiasm of the right sort it comprises earnest Ness concentration and power and there are a very few people that cannot be influenced in some degree by its manifestation by another few people realize the actual value of enthusiasm many have succeeded by reason of its possession and many have failed by reason of its lack enthusiasm is the steam that drives our mental

machinery And which indirectly thus accomplishes the great things in life you cannot accomplish tasks properly yourself unless you manifest the degree of interest in them and what is enthusiasm but interest plus inspiration inspired interest that's what enthusiasm is by the power of enthusiasm the great things of Life are brought to expression and accomplishment enthusiasm is not a thing which some possess and others lack all Persons have have it potentially but only a few are able to express it the majority is afraid to let themselves feel a thing and then to let the feeling Express itself

in powerful action like the steam in an engine the majority of persons do not know how to get up the steam of enthusiasm they fail to keep the fires of interest and desire kindled under their mental boiler and the consequence is they fail to get up the steam of Enthusiasm M enthusiasm may be developed by cultivating interest and love of your task interest confidence and desire arouse enthusiasm and it remains for you to either concentrate it so that its effect will be directed straight toward the object person or thing that you wish to move or

else allow it to dissipate itself in the air without result like steam enthusiasm may be dissipated or used By concentrated Direction it produces results and by foolish waste and dissipation it fails to do so the more interest you take in a thing the greater does your confidence and desire grow and from these arise the steam of enthusiasm so remember always that interest is the mother of enthusiasm the enthusiastic man naturally tends toward the optimistic frame of mind and by doing so he diffuses an atmosphere of confident Cheerful expectation around him which tends to inspire confidence

in others and which AIDS him in his Endeavors he surrounds himself with a mental Aura of success he vibrates success and those into whose presence he comes unconsciously take on his vibrations enthusiasm is very contagious and one filled with the right quality kind and degree of unconsciously communicates his interest earnestness and expectations to Others enthusiasm plays an important part in that which is called personal magnetism it is alive warm vital mental quality and it quickens the pulse of the one using it and those who are affected by it it is different from the coldblooded indifference

that one meets with so often in business and which causes many a sale to be lost and many a good thing to be turned down the man who lacks enthusiasm is robbed of more than half his force of Personal influence no matter how good his arguments may be no matter how meritorious his proposition may be unless he possess the warm vital quality of enthusiasm his efforts are largely wasted and his result impaired think over the salesmen who have approached you and remember how some of them produced the chilling effect of a damp Cellar upon you

While others caused you to sit up and take notice in spite of yourself by reason of Their Earnest interest and enthusiasm analyze the impression produced upon you by the different people with whom you have come in contact and then see how great an influence enthusiasm exerts and then remember the effect it produces upon yourself when you you feel it enthusiasm is mental steam remember that a few days ago there was erected a tablet in one of the great colleges of the land as a memorial to a former Student in its Halls this young man saved

the lives of 17 people during a great storm on the lake he swam out after them one by one and brought them all in alive he fainted away from exhaustion and when he recovered covered Consciousness his first words were boys did I do my best the words of this young man expressed the great question that should urge every true Seeker after success to so live and act that he may be able to Answer it in the affirmative it is not so much a question of did I do so much or did I do as much

as someone else as it is a matter of did I do my best the man who does his best is never a failure he is always a success and if the best should be but a poor pretty thing still the world will place the Laurel wreath of Victory upon his brow when he accomplishes it the one who does his best is never a quitter or a sherker he stays right on his job until he has Bestowed upon it the very best that there is in him to give at that particular time such a man can

never be a failure the man who does his best is never heard asking the pessimistic question what's the use he doesn't care a whole lot about that part of it his mind is fixed upon the idea that he is on his job and is not going to be satisfied with anything less than his best and when one really is able to answer the great question with an honest Yes I did my best then verily he will be able able to answer the what's the use question properly it is of use to have brought out the

best work in one self if for no other reason than because it is a man-making process a developer of the self this infernal what's the use question seems to have been invented by some pessimistic imp of Darkness to use in discouraging people making desperate struggles or leading forlorn hop hopes it has brought down many a man into the Meer of despondency and failure Chase it out of your mind whenever it appears and replace it with the question am I doing my best knowing that an affirmative answer settles the other question also anything is of use

if done in the right spirit in a worthy cause and because one's own manhood demands it yes even if one goes down to to death in the doing of it still it is a success listen to this story told in a Recent magazine article it is a story of a sailor on the wreck of a German kerosene steamer which dashed against the rocks of the New Finland Coast in the early part of 1901 she had taken fire and had been run ashore on a submerged Reef about an eighth of a mile from the coast the

coastline itself was a wall some 400 F feet high when morning dawned the fishermen on Shore saw that her Boats were all gone and all the crew and Officers had apparently been lost all except three men two of these three men were standing on the bridge the third was a loft lashed to the rigging later the Watchers saw a tremendous wave strike the vessel sweeping away the bridge and the two men who had been standing on it several hours later the they saw the man in the rigging unlash him and beat his arms against his

body vigorously evidently to restore the circulation which had been Almost stopped by the lashing and the extreme cold the man then took off his coat waved it to the fishermen on top of the cliff and then plunged into the sea the first thought was that he had given up the fight and committed suicide but he was not that kind of a man he struck out for sure and reaching it made three separate attempts to secure a foothold on the rocks at the bottom of the Cliff but he failed three times was he swept away by

the surf and finally seeing the futility of his efforts he swam away again toward the ship as the narrator well says at that crisis in the struggle 99 men out of a 100 would have given up and allowed themselves to drown but this man was not a quitter after a fierce battle with the waves the man gained the ship and after a desperate struggle managed to board Her he climbed again into the rigging and waved his hand to the fishermen high up on the cliff who were unable to help him he lashed himself fast and

Until Dark could be seen signaling the fisherman above to show them that he was still alive and game when the following morning broke the fisherman saw that his head had fallen to his breast he was motionless Frozen during the night he was dead his brave soul had gone forth to meet its maker and who can doubt that When that man confronted his maker his eyes were looking firmly and bravely toward the presence and not bowed down in shame or fear such a man was indeed worthy to face his maker unabashed and unashamed as the writer

George Kennan has said in words that make one thrill that man died as a man in adverse circumstances ought to die fighting to the last you may call it foolish and say that he might better have ended his Sufferings by allowing himself to drown when he found that he could not make a landing at the base of the cliff but deep down in your hearts you pay secret homage to his courage his endurance and his indomitable will he was defeated at last but so long as he had Consciousness neither fire nor cold nor Tempest could

break down his manhood the Caucasians have a favorite proverb that says heroism is endurance for one moment More and that one moment more tells the difference between the quitter and the man who has done his best no one is dead until his heart has ceased beating and no one has failed so long as there is one more bit of fight in him and that one moment more often is the moment in which the tide turns the moment when the enemy relaxes his hold and drops back beaten lesson six the power of Desire what is desire

Let us see Webster tells us that it is the natural longing to possess any seeming good eager wish to obtain or enjoy or in its abnormal or degenerate sense excessive or morbid longing lust appetite desire is a much abused term the public mind has largely identified it with its abnormal or degener phase just mentioned ignoring its original and true sense many use the word in the sense of an unworthy longing or craving instead Of in the true sense of aspiration worthy craving and longing Etc to call Desire aspiration renders it nonetheless desire to apply to

it the term laudable aim and ambition does not take away from the character of Desire there is no sense in endeavoring to escape the fact that desire is the natural and Universal impulse toward action be the action good or bad without desire the will does not spring into Action and nothing is accomplished even the highest attainments and aims of the race are possible only when the steam of will is aroused by the flame and heat of Desire some of the occult teaching are filled with instructions to kill out desire and the student is warned to

beware of it even in its most Insidious and subtle forms even to the extent of avoiding even the desire to be desireless even the desire not to Desire now this is all nonsense for if one wishes or wants or is inclined or thinks best to or is pleased to kill without desire in any of these cases he is but manifesting a desire not to desire in spite of his use of other names what is this wishing to wanting to feeling like inclination being pleased to and all the rest but just plain clear unadulterated desire masquerading

under some of these names to proceed to kill out desire without Desiring to do so is Like trying to lift oneself by pulling on his own bootstraps Folly what is really meant is that the occultist should proceed to kill out the lower desires that he finds within his nature and also to kill out the attachment for things regarding this last we would say that all true occultists know that even the best things are not good enough to rule and Master One nothing is good enough for the soul to allow itself to be unduly Attached to

it so that the thing rules the soul instead of the Soul mastering the thing that is what the teachings mean avoidance of attachment and in this the occult teachers are clearly right desire is a frightful Master like fire it sweeps away the supports of the Soul leaving nothing but smoldering ashes but also like fire desire is a splendid servant and by its harnessed power we are able to generate the steam Of the will and activity and to accomplish much in the world without proper desire the world would be without activity so do not make the

mistake of using desire any more than you would refuse to use fire but in both cases keep the Mastery in your own hands and avoid allowing the control to pass from you to desire desire is the motivating force that runs the world as little as we care To admit it in many cases look around you and see the effects of desire in every human act good or bad as a writer has said every deed that we do good or bad is prompted by desire we are charitable because we desire to relieve our inner distress at

the sight of suffering or from the desire of sympathy or from the desire to be respected in this world or to secure a comfortable place in the next one man Is kind because he desires to be kind because it gives him satisfaction to be kind while another man is cruel from precisely the same kind of motive one man does his duty because he desires to do it he obtains a higher satisfaction from Duty well done than he would from the neglecting of it in accordance with some weaker desires the religious man is religious because his

religious desires are stronger than his irreligious ones Because he finds a higher satisfaction in religion than in the Pursuits of the worldly minded the moral man is moral because his moral desire desires are stronger than his immoral ones he obtains a greater satisfaction in being moral than in being the contrary everything we do is prompted by desire in some shape or form high or low man cannot be desireless and act in any way desire is the Motive Power behind All action it is a natural law of life everything from the atom to the moment monad

from the monad to the insect from the insect to man from Man to Nature acts and does things by reason of the power and force of Desire the animating motive all the above at the first glance would seem to make of man a mere machine subject to the power of any stray desire that might happen to come into his mind but this is far from being so man Act acts not upon every desire but upon the Strongest desire or the average of his strongest desires this average of desires is that which constitutes his nature or

character and here is where the Mastery of the eye comes in man need not be a slave or creature of his desires if he will assert his Mastery he may control regulate govern and guide his Desires in any direction that he pleases nay more he may even create desires by an action of his will As we shall see presently by a knowledge of psychological laws he may neutralize unfavorable desires and grow and develop yes practically create new Desires in their place all by the power of His will aided by the light of his reason and

judgment man is the master of his mind yes but some close reasoning critic May object yes that is true enough but even in that case is not desire the ruling motive must not one desire create These new desires before he can do so is not desire always precedent to action very close reasoning this good friends but all advaned occultists know that there is a point in which the principle of Desire Shades and merges into its companion principle will and that a close Reasoner and mental analyst May imagine a mental state in which one may be

almost said to manifest a will to will rather than to merely desire to will this state must be experienced Before it can be understood words cannot express it we have stated that it was in the power of man to create desire not only to be its Master when created but also to actually created by bringing it into being and the statement is absolutely true and is verified and proven by the most recent experiments and discoveries of modern psychology instead of man being a creature of desire and this indeed he is in many cases he may

become master of Desire and even a creator of it by knowledge and will he may reverse the ordinary order of things and displacing the Intruder from the throne he may seat himself there in his rightful place and then bid the late occupant do his will and obey his bidding but the best way for the new occupant of the throne to bring about a reorganized court is to dismiss the old objectionable creatures of his mind and create new ones in their Places and here is how it may be done in the first place one must think

carefully over the tasks that he wishes to accomplish then using his judgment carefully judicially and impartially impersonally so far as is possible he must take mental stock of himself and see in what points he is deficient so far as the success full accomplishment of the task is concerned then let him analyze the task before him in detail separating the Matter into as many clear defined divisions as possible so that he may be able to see the thing as it is in detail as well as in its entirety then let him take a similar inventory of

the things which seem necessary for the accomplishment of the task not the details that will arise only as the work progresses day by day but the general things which must be done in order that the task is brought to a successful conclusion then having taken stock of The task the nature of the undertaking and one's own qualifications and shortcomings then begin to create desire according to the following plan the first step in the creation of Desire is that of the forming of a clear vital mental image of the qualities things and details of the undertaking

as well as of the completed whole by a mental image we mean a clear-cut distinct mental picture in the imagination of the things just Named now do not turn away with an impatient motion At The Mention of the word imagination that is another word that you have only a mistaken idea of imagination means far more than the mere Idol fan iul use of that part of the mind that is believed by people to be all there is to it it isn't all by a long way in fact the fanciful part may be said to be

merely a shadow of the real imaginative Effort imagination is a real thing it is a faculty of the Mind by which it creates a matrix mold or pattern of things which the trained will and desire afterward materialize es into objective reality there has been nothing created by the hands and mind of man which did not have its first origin in the imagination of someone imagination is the first step in creation whether of Worlds or Trifles the mental pattern must always Precede the material form and so it is in the creation of Desire before you can

create a desire you must have a clear mental image of what you need to desire you will find that this task of creating a mental image is a little harder than you had expected at the start you will find it hard to form even a faint mental picture of that which you need but be not discouraged and persevere for in this as everything else practice makes perfect each time you try To form the mental image it will appear a little clearer and more distinct and the details will come into a little more prominence do not

Tire yourself at first but lay aside the task until later in the day or tomorrow but practice and persevere and you will soon be able to see mentally the things you need just as clearly as a memory picture of something you have already seen we shall have more to say on this subject of mental imagery and Imagination in subsequent lessons then after having acquired the clear mental image of the things you wish to desire and thus attain cultivate the focusing of the attention upon these things the word attention is derived from the Latin word attendere

meaning to stretch forth the original idea being that in attention the mind was stretched forth or extended toward the object of attention and this is the correct idea for that is the way the Mind operates in The matter keep the ideas before your attention as much as possible so that the Mind may take a firm grasp upon them and make them a part of itself by doing this you firmly impress the ideas upon the wax tablet of the Mind thus having fixed the idea clearly in your mind by means of the imagination and attention until

as we have said it becomes a fixture there begin to cultivate an Ardent desire longing craving demand for the materialization Of the things demand that you grow the qualities necessary for the task demand that your mental pictures materialize demand that the details be manifested as well as the whole making allowance for the something better which will surely arise to take the place of the original details as you proceed the inner Consciousness will attend to these things for you then desire firmly confident and earnestly be not half-hearted in your demands and desires Claim and demand the

whole thing and feel confident that it will work out into material objectivity and reality think of it dream of it and always long for it you must learn to want it the worst way learn to want it hard enough you can attain and obtain many things by wanting them hard enough the trouble is with most of us that we do not want things hard enough we mistake vague cravings and wishes for Earnest Longing demanding desire and want get to desire and demand the thing just as you demand and desire your daily meals that is wanting

it the worst way this is merely a hint surely you can supply the rest if you are in Earnest and want to hard enough lesson seven The Law of Attraction there is in nature a great law The Law of Attraction by the operations of which all things from atoms to men are attracted toward each Other in the degree of the common Affinity of common use the reverse of this law which is merely another manifestation of its power is what is called repulsion which is but the other pole of Attraction and by the operations of which

things tend to repel each other in the degree that they are unlike opposing and of no use to each other the law of attraction is universal Al on all the planes of life from the physical to the Spiritual its operations are uniform and constant and we may take the phenomena of one plane and thereby study the phenomena of another plane for the same rule applies in each case the same law is in operation in the same way beginning with the tiny cor pusles electrons or ions of which the atoms are formed we find manifested the

Law of Attraction certain electrons attract each other and repel others still thereby causing to spring into existing Groups combinations and colonies of electrons which being an agreement and Harmony manifest and constitute what are called atoms which until recently were supposed to be the Primal form of matter passing on the atoms themselves we find many degrees of affinity and attraction existing between them which cause them to combine and form into molecules of which all masses of matter consists for instance every drop of water is composed of countless molecules Of water and each molecule is composed of

two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen the combination always being the same in every molecule of water now why why these atoms combine in just this way the same invariable grouping and proportion not by chance surely for there is no such thing in nature there is a natural law back of every phenomenon and in this case it is the law of attraction manifesting in the case of these atoms and it is so in all Chemical combinations it is called chemical Affinity sometimes an attached atom will come in contact with or in proximity to

another atom and then bang goes the explosion of the molecule as the atom flies away from its partners and into the arms of the other atom for which it has a greater Affinity there are marriages and divorces in the world of atoms you will notice and in the cases of the molecules It is found that certain molecules are attracted to others of the same kind under what is called cohesion and thus masses of matter are composed a piece of gold silver tin glass or other form of matter is composed of countless molecules held together tightly

by cohesion and this cohesion is merely another form of the Law of Attraction the same that draws all things together and underlying the law of attraction is to be found our old Principle of desire and will you may May shrug your shoulders at this mention of desire and will in connection with electrons atoms molecules all forms of matter but just wait a bit and see what the leading scientific authorities have to say on the subject Professor hkl one of the world's greatest scientists a materialist who would sneer at the teachings of mental science even this

man naturally prejudiced against Mentalist Theory Finds himself compelled to say the idea of chemical Affinity consists in the fact that the various chemical elements perceive the qualitative differences in other elements experience pleasure or revulsion at contact with them and execute specific movements on this ground he also positively and distinctly states that in the atoms there must be something corresponding to desire for content and association with other atoms and will to enable the atom to respond To the desire law is constant throughout nature from atom to man physical mental and spiritual but what has all this

to do with the secret of success you may ask simply that the law of attraction is an important part in The Secret of success in as much as it tends to bring to us the things persons and circumstances in accordance with our Earnest desire demand and will just as it brings together the atoms and other particles Of matter make yourself an atom of living desire and you will attract to yourself the person things and circumstances fitting in with the accomplishment of your desire you will also get into rapport with those who are working along the

same lines of thought and will be attracted to them and they to you and you will be brought into relations with persons things and environments likely to work out the problem of your desires you will get Next to the right persons and things all by the operation of this great natural law of attraction no necromancy or magic about it at all nothing Supernatural or mysterious just the operations of a great natural law you can do little by yourself in life be you ever so strong and able life is a complex thing and individuals are interdependent

upon each other for the doings of things one individual Segregated from all the other individuals could accomplish little or nothing along the lines of outer activity he must form combinations Arrangements harmonies and agreements with others and in accordance with environments and things that is he must create and use the proper environments and things and draw to himself others with whom he must form combinations in order to do things and these persons things and environments come to him and He to them by reason of this great Law of Attraction and the way he sets into operation

this great law of attraction is by the operation of his desire and along the lines of mental imagery do you see the connection now so be careful to form cultivate and manifest the right desires hold to them firmly strongly and constantly and you will set into operation this great law which forms an important part of the secret of Success desire Force is the Motive Power leading the activities of life it is the basic vital power which animates the minds of living things and urges them forth to action without strong desire no one accomplishes anything worthy

of the name and the greater the desire the greater will be the amount of energy generated and manifested everything else being equal that is to say that given a dozen men of equal intellect physical health And mental activity equal in everything else except desire in short the ones in whom the greatest desire resides and is manifested will outstrip the others in attainment and of these winners the one in who desire burns like an unquenchable flame will be the one who will Master the others by the force of his primitive Elementary power not not only does

desire give to the man that inward motive which leads to the enfoldment of The Power Within Himself but it does more than this it causes to radiate from him the finer and more subtle mental and vital forces of his nature which flowing forth in all directions like the magnetic waves from the magnet or the electric waves from the Dy influencing all who come within the field of force desire for is a real active effective force of Nature and serves to attract draw and bring to a center that which is in line with the nature of

the Desire the much talked of Law of Attraction of which so much is heard in mental science and the new thought depends largely upon the force and power of desire desire force is at the center of the Law of Attraction there is a tendency in nature to attract and draw to to the center of a desire the things which are needed to fulfill that desire one's own will come to him by reason of his natural force which lies Behind and underneath the entire phenomena of mental influence this being so does it not become at once

apparent why one who wishes to accomplish anything should be sure to create a strong desire for it and at the same time be sure to acquire the art of visualization so as to form a clear mental picture of the thing desired a clear mold in which the materialized reality May manifest have you ever come in contact With any of the Great Men of modern business life if you have seen these people in action you will have become conscious of a subtle mysterious something about them a something that you could actually feel a something that seemed

to draw you to fit into their schemes plans and desires almost by an irresistible Force these people are all persons of the strongest kind of Desire their desire Force manifests strongly and affects those with whom they come in Contact not only this but their desire Force flows from them in Great Waves which a cultists inform us soon manifests a circular or Whirlpool like motion swing around and around the center of the desire these men become actual Cyclones of Desire into which nearly everything that comes within its sweep is affected and swept into the Vortex have

we not evidences of this in the cases of all the great leaders of men can we not see the operation of that Mighty Law of Attraction which brings to them their own we are apt to call this willpower and so it is in a way back and under the will in such cases is to be found the Ardent burning desire that is the motive force of the attractive power this desire force is a primitive Elemental thing it is found in the animal kingdom and among the lower races of men perhaps more clearly than among the

higher types of men but only because In such instances it is seen stripped of the covering sheaths disguises and masks that surround the more civilized forms and plains of life but remember this well the same principle is Manifest under and beneath the polished veneer of civilized life the desire force of the cultured leader of men is as Elemental as that animating The Fierce and Shaggy caveman or the wild Berserker who naked and half mad rushed upon overwhelming hordes of his enemy brushing them aside Like flies that is if you will but look beneath the polished

surface in the old wild days desire manifested its force on the physical plane now it manifests on the mental plane that is the only difference the force is the same in both cases while we write there has just been produced on stage a new play that illustrates this principle the heroine the daughter of an Old New York family of high social standing in wealth has a dream of her life in a former incarnation in which she sees herself torn from the arms of her cave dweller father by the mighty arms of a fierce Savage Chief

Whose desire is manifested through the physical she awakens from her dream and to her horror soon discovers the face of her dream captor on a man who comes into her father's life in New York this man comes from the West forceful resourceful And desirous beating down all before him in the game of Finance as of old he places his foot on the neck of his enemies but on the mental plane this time instead of the physical the same old desire for power is strong within him the same old masterfulness manifests itself this man says I

have never quit I have never been afraid the same old desire then flamed up in the Savage now manifests in the Master of Wall Street and between the force of its attraction and the coupled and Allied force of his will he repeats the performances of his previous Incarnation but on the plane of mental forces and achievement this time mind not muscle being the instrument through which the desire manifests we give the above example merely as an illustration of the fact that desire is the motivating force that moves the will into action and which Cause the

varied activity of Life men and things desire force is a real power in life and influences not only the powers and achievement of oneself but also attracts in influences and compels other persons and things to swing in toward the center of the desire sending forth the currents in the secret of success desire plays a prominent part without a desire for Success there is no success none the Law of attraction is set into motion by desire the majority of the principles advanced in this book have been in the nature of positive injunctions that is you have

been urged to do certain things rather than to not do the opposite or contrary but here we come to a place in which the advice must be given along the negative lines we must urge you not to do a certain thing we allude to that great poison of the mind and will known As fear we do not allude to physical fear important though physical courage may be and as regrettable as physical cowardice may be considered still it is not a part of the purpose of this book to preach against the latter and advise a cultivation

of the former quality you will find much of that elsewhere our purpose here is to combat that subtle Insidious enemy of true self-expression which appears in the Shape and guise of mental fear for boings which may be considered as negative thought just as the other principles mentioned in this work may be considered as positive thought fear thought is that condition of the Mind in which everything is seen through blue glasses in which everything seems to bring a sense of the futility of endeavor the I can't principle of mentality as contrasted with the I can and

I will mental Attitude it is the noxious weed in the mental Garden which tends to kill the value Val able plants to be found therein it is the fly and the ointment The Spider and the cup of the wine of life so far as we know the first person to use the word fear thought which has now passed into common use was Horus Fletcher the well-known writer who coined it to supplant the use of the word worry in a certain sense he had pointed out that anger and worry were The two great hindrances to a

well-balanced Advanced and Progressive mentality but many misunderstood him and urged that to abolish worry meant to cease taking any consideration of the tomorrow a lack of common prudence and forethought and so Fletcher coined the word fear thought to express a phase of his idea of forethought without worry and he entitled his second book on the subject happiness as found in forethought minus fear thought A very happy expression of a very happy idea Fletcher also was the first to advance the idea that fear was not a thing in itself but merely an expression of fear thought

a manifestation of the State of Mind known as fear thought he and others who have written on the subject have taught that fear might be abolished by the practice of abolishing fear thought from the Mind by driving it out of the mental chamber and the best teachers have taught that the best way To drive out fear or any other undesirable mental state was by cultivating the thought of the opposite quality of Mind by compelling the mind to dwell upon the mental picture of the desirable quality and by the appropriate Autos suggestions the illustration has often

been stated that the way to drive Darkness from a room is not to shovel it out but to throw open the shutters and let the sunlight stream in and that is The best way to neutralize fear thought the mental process has aptly been spoken of as vibrations a figure that has a full warrant in modern science then by raising the vibration to the positive pitch the negative vibrations may be counteracted by cultivating the qualities recommended in the other lessons of this book fear thought may be neutral rzed the poison of fear thought is Insidious and

subtle but it slowly creeps through the veins until it paralyzes all useful efforts and action until the heart and brain are affected and find it difficult to throw it off fear thought is at the bottom of the majority of failures and going down in life as long as a man keeps his nerve and confidence in himself he is able to rise to his feet after each stumble and face the enemy resolutely but let him feel the effects of fear thought to Such an extent that he cannot throw it off and he will fail to rise

and will perish miserable there is nothing to fear except fear has well been said we have spoken elsewhere about the law of attraction which operates in the direction of attracting to us that which we desire but there is a reverse side to this it is a poor rule that will not work both ways fear will set into motion The Law of Attraction just as well as Desire just as desire draws to one the things he pictures in his mind as the desired thing so will fear draw to him the thing pictured in his mind as

the thing feared the thing that I feared hath befallen me and the reason is very simple and the apparent contradiction vanishes when we examine the matter what is the pattern upon which The Law of Attraction builds under the force of Desire the mental image of course and so It is in the case of fear the person carries about the mental image or haunting picture of the feared thing and the Law of Attraction brings it to him just as it brings the desired thing did you ever stop to think that fear was the negative pole of

Desire the same laws work in both cases so avoid fear thought as you would the poisonous draft that you know would cause your blood to become black and thick and your breathing labored and Difficult it is a vile thing and you should not rest content until you have expelled it from your mental system you can get rid of it by desire and will coupled with the holding of the mental image of fearlessness drive it up by cultivating its opposite change your polarity raise your mental vibrations someone has said there is no devil but fear then

send that devil back to the place where he properly belongs For if you entertain him hospitably he will make your Heaven a Hell in order that he may feel at home use the mental big stick on him lesson eight personal magnetism we hear much about personal magnetism these days it is a peculiar quality of the mental being of the individual that serves to bring other persons into a mood or State of Mind sympathetic with that of the magnetic person some men have this quality Developed to a wonderful extent and are able to bring about a

harmonious agreement on the part of other persons in a short time While others are almost entirely deficient in this respect and their very presence tends to arouse antagonism in the minds of others the fact of personal magnetism is accepted without question by the majority of people but few will agree on any Theory attempting to account for it those who have studied The matter carefully know that the whole thing depends upon the mental states of the individual and upon his ability to cause s to catch his mental vibrations this catching is caused by what is known

as mental induction induction you know is that property or quality or process by which one body having electrical or magnetic polarity produces it in another without direct contact and mental induction is a Manifestation of similar phenomena on the mental plane people's mental states are catching or contagious and if one infuses enough life and enthusiasm into his mental States they will affect the minds of persons with whom they come in contact we have explained this matter in detail in the little book of this series entitled mental influence it seems to us that the prime factor in

successful mental induction or manifestations of personal magnetism is Enthusiasm in another lesson in this book we have told you about enthusiasm and when you think of personal magnetism it will be well for you to read what we have said about enthusiasm also enthusiasm gives earnestness to the person and there is no mental state so effective as earnestness earnestness makes itself felt strongly and will often make a person give you attention in spite of himself Walter D Moody a well-known writer on the subject of salesmanship says truthfully it will be found that all men possessed of

personal magnetism are very much in Earnest their intense earnestness is magnetic and nearly every student of the subject has noted this fact but the earnestness must be more than a firm confident honest belief in the thing being presented to the attent of the other person it must be alive contagious Earnestness which can best be described as enthusiasm enthusiastic earnestness that's the term this enthusiastic earnestness has much emotion in it it appeals to the emotional side of human nature rather than to the thinking reasoning side and yet an argument based upon reason and conducted upon logical

principles makes may be presented with enthusiastic earnestness with much greater effect Than if the appeal to the reason is conducted in a cold unemotional way the average person is so constituted mentally that he thaws out under a manifestation of live enthusiastic feeling under the term of personal magnetism the feeling side of mentality is as important as the thinking side and it is far more common and Universal for the majority of people really think very little while everyone feels a writer in the early 7s of the Last century said all of us emit a sphere aura

or Halo impregnated with the very essence of ourselves sensitives know it so do our dogs and other pets so does a hungry lion or tiger I even flies snakes and the insects as we know to our cost some of us are magnetic others not some of us are warm attractive love inspiring and friendship making While others are cold intellectual thoughtful reasoning but not Magnetic let a learned man of the latter type address an audience and it will soon Tire of his intellectual discourse and will manifest symptoms of drowsiness he talks at them but not into

them he makes them think not feel which is most tiresome to the majority of persons and few speakers succeed who attempt to merely make people think they want to be made to feel people will pay liberally to be made to feel or laugh while they will Begrudge a dime for instruction or talk that will make them think pitted against a learned man of the type mentioned above let there be a half educated but very loving ripe and mellow man with but nine10 of the logic and audition of the first man yet such a man carries

along his crowd with perfect ease and everybody is wide awake treasuring up every good thing that falls from his lips the reasons are palpable and plain it is heart against Head Soul against logic and soul is bound to win every time if you will notice the man and woman who are considered the most magnetic you will find that almost invariably they are people who have what is called Soul about them that is they manifest and induce feeling or emotion they manifest traits of character and nature similar to that manifested by actors and actresses they throw

out a part of Themselves which seems to affect those coming in contact with them notice a non-magnetic actor and you will see that although he may be letter perfect in his part and may have acquired the proper mannerisms gestures and other technical parts of his art still he lacks a something and that something may be seen to be the ability to communicate feeling now those who are in the secret know full well that many of the successful actors who seem to burn with Passion feeling and emotion on the stage really feel but little of these

qualities while acting they are like phonographs giving off sounds that have been registered in them but if you will investigate still further you will see that in studying their parts and practicing the same privately these people induced a simulated emotion such as the part called for and held it firmly in their minds accompanying it with the appropriate gestures Etc until It became firmly set there impressed upon the tablets of the mentality as the record of a phonograph is likewise impressed upon the wax then when afterward they played the part the outward semblance of the feelings

with the Motions gestures emphasis Etc reproduced itself and impressed the audience it is said that if an actor allows himself to be actually carried away with his part so that he feels the Same keenly the result will not be advantageous for he is overcome with the feeling and its effect is upon himself rather than upon his audience the best result is said to be obtained when one has first experienced and felt the emotion and then afterward reproduces it in the manner above stated without allowing it to control him we mention the above facts for the

use of those who do not naturally possess the faculty or quality of Personal magnetism to the required degree such people will find it to their advantage to Endeavor to work up the desired feeling of enthusiastic earnestness in private fixing the mental impression by frequent private rehearsals and practice until it becomes registered in their habit mind to be reproduced upon occasions when needed be a good actor that is the advice in such cases and remember this that frequent practice and private Rehearsal makes the good actor it is a far better thing to be able to induce

feeling and enthusiasm in this way rather than be lacking of it on the one hand or to be an emotional inebriate on the other hand one may be rationally enthusiastically Earnest without being filled full of slushy gush or modlin emotionalism we think that the careful student will see just what is meant here and will not misunderstand us and Remember that through this repeated acting the desired quality will often become real and natural lesson nine attract active personality we have explained in our lesson on individuality that what is known as the personality was not the real

I of the individual but that instead it formed the me part of oneself the outward appearance of the individual as we have told you the word personality really means the mask aspect Of the individual the outward appearance of the part in the great drama of life that he is playing and just as the actor may change his mask and costume so may the individual change alter and replace his personality by other features found desirable but nevertheless while the personality is not the real ey it plays an important part in the drama of life particularly as

the audience pays more attention to the personality as a rule than than it does to the real individual Behind the mask and so it is proper that every individual should cultivate and acquire a personality that will prove attractive to his audience and render him acceptable to them no we are not preaching deception we regard individuality as the real self and believe that one should build himself up to his highest and best according to the laws of individual unfold M but nevertheless so long as one must wear a personality about him as he goes through Life

we believe that it is not only to his Advantage but is also his duty to make that personality as pleasing and attractive as he is able to you know that no matter how good intelligent and high-minded a man may be if he wears the mask of an unattractive and unpleasant personality he is placed at a disadvantage and drives away people whom he might benefit and who would be glad to love him if they could see behind his unattractive Mask nor are we speaking of one's personal physical appearance when we speak of unattractive and attractive masks

while one's physical appearance goes a good way in some cases there is a charm of Personality that far transcends that fleeting appearance there are many persons having beautiful faces and forms whose personality is far from charming and who repel rather than attract and there are others whose faces are homely and whose forms are far from Shapely who have nevertheless that winning way about them that attracts others to them there are people whom we are always glad to see and whose charm of manner makes us forget that they are not beautiful in fact even their homely

faces seem to become transfigured when we are in their presence that is what we meant by personality in the same way in which we are now using it it Bears a very close relationship to personal magnetism of Which we spoke of in our preceding lesson one of the first things that should be cultivated by those wishing to develop the charm of personality is a mental atmosphere of cheerfulness there is nothing so invigorating as the presence of a cheerful person nothing so dispiriting as one of those human wet blankets that cast a chill over everyone and

everything with whom they come in contact think of your acquaintances and you will find that you will naturally Place them in two classes the cheerful ones and the gloomy ones Sunny gy is always preferred to gloomy Gus the one you will welcome and the other you will fly from the Japanese understand this law of personality and one of the first things that they teach their children is to preserve a cheerful Sunny exterior no matter if their hearts are breaking with them it is considered one of the most flagrant offenses against Good form to carry their

sorrows grief and pain into the presence of others they Reserve that side of their life for the private y of their own chamber to the outside world they present always a happy Sunny smile and in this they are wise for a number of reasons one that they may induce a more buoyant and positive State of Mind in themselves two that they may attract cheerful persons and things to them by the Law of Attraction and three that they may Present an attractive personality to others and thereby be welcome and congenial Associates and participants in the work

of Life there is little welcome or help for the gloomy gust tribe in everyday business life they are avoided as a pestilence everyone has troubles enough of his own without those of other people added th too remember the old lines laugh and the world laughs With You Weep and You Weep alone for this sad old Earth is in need of Mirth and has troubles enough of its own so cultivate the smile that won't come off it is a valuable asset of Personality not the silly idiotic grin but the smile that means something the real thing

and such a smile comes from within and is more than Skin Deep if you want a verbal pattern upon which to model the mental state that will produce this outward appearance of Personality here it is bright cheerful And happy frame it and hang it in a prominent place in your mental Art Gallery commit it to memory and visualize it so that you may be able to see it before you like an illuminated electric sign bright cheerful and happy then Endeavor to materialize the idea into reality within your mind think it out act it out and

it will become real to you then will you have something Worthwhile in the shape of Personality this may seem simple and childish to you but if you will work it out into actuality it will be worth thousands of dollars to you no matter what Walk of Life you may be in another another valuable bit of personality is that of self-respect if you have real self-respect it will manifest itself in your outward demeanor and appearance if you don't have it you had better start In and cultivate it beginning from the outside that is cultivate the appearance

of self-respect and then get busy building up a reality behind the front remember that you are a man or a woman as the case may be and not a poor crawling worm of the dust or human doormat face the world firmly and fearlessly keeping your eyes well to the front hold up your head there is nothing like a stiff backbone and a raised head for meeting the world the man with bent Head seems to apologize for living and being on the earth and the world is apt to take such at their own valuation an erected

head enables one to walk past the dragons at the door of success a writer gives the following good advice on this subject hold your earlobes directly over your shoulders so that a plum line hung from the ears describes the line of your body be sure also not to carry the head either to the right or left but Vertical many men make the mistake especially while waiting for a customer to finish some important piece of business of Leaning the head to the right or left this indicates weakness a study of men discloses the fact that the

strong men never tilt the head their heads sit perfectly straight on strong necks their shoulders held easily yet firmly in position are inspiring in their strength indicating Poise every line of the body in other Words denotes the thought of the bearer the value of this advice lies not only in the fact that it gives to you the appearance of self-respect no trifling matter by the way but also that it tends to cultivate a corresponding mental state within you for just as thought takes form in action so do actions develop mental states it is a rule

that works both ways so think self-respect and act self-respect let the I am within you Manifest itself don't crawl don't cringe don't gravel but be a real human being another bit of Personality worth cultivating is the art of taking an interest in others many people go through the world so wrapped up in their own Affairs that they convey the impression of being apart and aloof from others with whom they come in in contact this mental state manifests in a most unpleasant form of Personality such people are not only Regarded as cold and lacking heart and

soul but they also give others the impression of selfishness and hardness and the public is apt to let such a person alone to leave him to his own selfish moods and mental states such a one never becomes popular never becomes a good mixer among men taking an interest in others is an art that well repays the student of success to cultivate of course one must always keep the main chance before him and not Allow his own interests to suffer by reason of his interest in others that goes without saying for unreasonable altruism is just as

one-sided as undue selfishness but there is a middle course you will find something of interest in every person with whom you come in contact and if you will but turn your attention to that interest it will manifest itself in such a way that the person will be conscious of it will appreciate it and will be glad to Respond by taking an interest in you this is not deceit or time- serving or flattery it is the law of compensation working on the mental plane you get what you give if you will stop and think a moment

you will find that the people whose personality seems the most attractive to you are the people who seem to take an interest in your own personality this taking an interest in others manifests itself in many ways one of which is in making you a good Listener now we do not mean that you should allow yourself to be made a Dumping Ground for all the talk of all the people with whom you come in contact if you do this you will have time for nothing else you must use ordinary judgment and tact in regulating the time

you give to others depending upon the person and the particular circumstances of the case what we do mean is that while you're listening you should listen well there Is no subtler compliment that one person can pay to another than listening well to him or her to listen well is to listen with interest and that is something that cannot be very well taught in a book perhaps the best way to express the idea is to say listen as you would be listened unto the Golden Rule may be applied to many things and ideas with benefit and

good results the man who listens well is well thought of by those to whom he Listens in this connection we are always reminded of the old story of Carlile who as everyone knows was reputed to be a crusty crabby old chap prone to sarcastic remarks and brusk treatment of those with whom he engaged in conversation the tale goes that one day a man called upon Carlile and the man understood the art of listening well he so turned the conversations as to get Carlile started on a subject dear to his heart and then he kept quiet

and Listened well Carlile talked a straight streak for for several hours and grew quite enthusiastic over his topic when at last the visitor arose to depart he was forced to actually tear himself away from Carlile who following him to the door manifested unusual enthusiasm and good spirits and bidding him goodbye said warmly come again man come again and ofen ye have a wonderfully bright mind and I've enjoyed your conversation Very much indeed ye are a most delightful conversationalist be careful not to bore people with your personal experiences better forget your personal self in talking to

others except when it is right to the point to bring yourself in people do not want to hear what a wonderful fellow you are they want to tell you what wonderful people they are which is very much more pleasant to them don't retail your woes nor recite Your many points of Excellence don't tell what a wonderful baby you have the other people have babies of their own to think about you must Endeavor to talk about things of interest to the other person if he wants to do the talking himself forget yourself and take an interest

in the other person some of the best retail Merchants impress upon their salespeople the advantage of cultivating the mental Attit ude and personality that you will give the customer the impression that you are on his side of the counter that is that you are taking a personal interest in his being well served suited well treated and satisfied the salesman who was able to create that impression is well Advanced on the road to success in his particular line this is a difficult thing to describe but a little observation in thought and practice along the lines Laid

down in the preceding lessons will do much for you in this direction a recent writer truthfully says on this subject suppose for instance you are in trade or a profession and wish to increase your business it will not do when you sell goods or services to make the matter a merely perfunctory transaction taking the customer's money giving him good value and letting him go away feeling that you have no interest in the matter Beyond giving him a fair deal and profiting thereby unless he feels that you have a personal interest in him and his needs

and that you are honestly desirous to increase his welfare you have made a failure and are losing ground when you can make every customer feel that you are really trying to advance his interests as well as your own your business will grow it is not necessary to give Premiums or heavier weights or better values than others give to accomplish this it is done by putting life and interest into every transaction however small this writer has stated the idea clearly forcibly and truthfully and you will do well to heed his advice and to put it into

actual practice another important point in personality is self-control particularly in the matter of keeping your temper anger is a mark of weakness not of Strength the man who loses his temper immediately places himself at a disadvantage remember the old saying Those whom the gods would destroy they first make Angry under the influence of anger a man does all sorts of foolish things that he afterwards regrets he throws judgment experience and caution to the winds and acts like a crazy man in fact in fact anger is a sort of Madness a phase of insanity if you

doubt this look Carefully at the face of the first angry man you meet and see how irrational he looks and acts it is a well-known fact that if one keeps cool while his opponent is angry he has decidedly the best of the matter for he is a sane man dealing with an irrational one it is the better policy to allow the other fellow to Stew in his own fat of anger keeping cool yourself at the same time it is a comparatively easy matter to cool down an angry man without Becoming angry yourself and as it

takes two to make a quarrel the matter is soon over you will find that a control of the outward expression will give you control of your inner mental state you will find that if you are able to control your voice keeping it calm steady and low pitched you will not fly into a passion and more than this you will find by so doing that the voice of the other fellow Will gradually come down from its loud boisterous tones and in the end both of You will be pitching your voices in the same key and you

have set that keyn note this is worth remembering this control of the voice it is a secret well worth knowing and practicing while we are on the subject of voice we would like to call your attention to a further control of Voice or rather a cultivation of voice a man having a well-controlled even pleasant voice has an advantage over others having equal abilities in other directions but Lacking that one quality the value of a vibrant resonant soft and flexible voice is great if you have such a voice you are blessed if you lack it start

to work and cultivate it oh yes you can did you ever hear of Nathan Shephard the well-known public speaker then listen to these words of his telling of his natural disadvantages of voice and how he overcame them and became a great speaker he says when I made up my mind to devote my mind and body to public Speaking I was told by my teachers and governors that I would certainly fail that my articulation was a failure and it was that my organs of speech were inadequate and they were and that if I would screw up

my little mouth it could be put into my mother's thimble and it could stinging words these certainly were and cruel ones I shall never forget them possibly however they stung me into a persistency that I would have never known but for these words at all of Events that is the philosophy of the self-made world of mankind I may not have accomplished much I do not claim to have accomplished much it is something to have made a living out of my art for 20 years and that I do claim to have done in spite of every

obstacle and every discouragement by turning my will upon my voice and vocal organs by cultivating my elocutionary instincts and my ear for the cadences of rhetoric by knowing what I and my voice And my feelings were about by making the most of myself after these words anything that we might add regarding the possibility of acquiring a good voice by will practice and desire would be Superfluous pick out the kind of voice that you think best adapted to your work and then cultivate it by practice determination and desire if Mr Shephard could become a famous public

speaker with such obstacles as These then for you to say but I can't is to stamp you as a weakling it has been suggested to us that we have a few words to say regarding the carriage or physical bearing of the person as an important part of Personality particularly in the phase of walking but we do not think that is necessary to add to what we have have said in this lesson regarding the subject in connection with what we have Also said regarding the mental state of self-respect the main thing is to cultivate the mental

state of self-respect and the rest will follow as a natural consequence thought takes form in action and the man who has self-respect embedded in his mind will surely so carry and demean him that he will give evidence of his mental state in his every physical action gesture carriage and motion he must have It within as well as without one must pay attention to the exterior aspect of course particularly in the matter of dress one should cultivate cleanliness and neatness of both body and clothing to be well dressed does not mean to me showy clad in

fact the person who is Best Dressed is inconspicuously dressed cultivate a quiet refined taste expressed in quality rather than in show and above all be clean in conclusion let us impress upon You again and again that that which we call personality is but the outer mask of the individual within the mask may be changed by an effort of the will aided by an intelligent discrimination first find out what kind of of personality you should have and then set to work to cultivate it to grow it in fact form the mental image of what you want

to be then think of it desire it ardently will that you shall have it then act it out over and over again Rehearsal after rehearsal until you will actually materialize your ideal into objective reality make a good mental pattern or mold and then pour in your mental material steadily and from the mold will come forth the character and personality that you desire and need then polish up this newborn personality until it becomes radiant with the brightness of culture you can be what you want to be If you only want to hard enough desire is the

mother of the actuality remember once more the old rule Earnest desire confident expectation firm resolve these are the three things that lead to accomplishment and now that we have given you this little secret of success use it it is up to you to make good we have pressed the button you must do the rest and Afterward on reading the foregoing Pages after they have been set up in type we are impressed with the idea that in spite of our determination as expressed in the first few pages not to attempt to lay down a code of

rules or course of conduct which should be considered as an infallible guide to success in spite of our vowed determination not to pose as a teacher or preacher we have nevertheless managed to do considerable in the dire of laying down the law so far as is Concerned naming of things to be done or avoided however we feel that the advice given is good and that the various examples quoted are calculated to arouse within the mind of the reader the spirit that leads to success and with this thought we send forth these pages to those who

may attract them to themselves or who may be attracted to them under the law of attraction but we feel that we shall not have Completed our task unless we once more remind the reader that success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice our own any more than any other persons there is no royal road to success no patent process by which the unsuccessful are to be magically transformed into captains of industry or magnates of Wall Street there is nothing more amusing or pitiful according to how one

views it than the bulk of success Talk given to the public by self-appointed teachers and preachers there is no one who can in a few pages point out to Seekers after success an infallible method whereby each and everyone May attain the success and attainment that their hearts crave it is a cold hard truth that each and every man must work out his own salvation in the matter of success rules and advice may greatly assist and they undoubtedly do this but The individual must accomplish the real work he must carve out his own destiny and there

is no power above or below that will do the work for him if he refuses to perform it himself the old saying that God helps him who helps himself is true in more senses than one it is true in the sense that the higher Aid seems to refuse to come to the assistance of one who is not willing to strike out for himself and do his best but it is true in another sense This Aid does come to one who will throw heart and soul into the tasks set before him and who will do each

day's work the best he knows how with hope in his soul and a confident expectation of better things right ahead around the turn of the road the wise man is the one who takes courageously the step right ahead of him planting his foot firmly and confidently upon it although he is unable to see further Ahead to such a one step after step is illuminated as he proceeds and he reaches his goal whereas the shrinking ones who have feared to take the obvious step because they could not see beyond it are still waiting for something to

turn up this waiting business is a poor policy as Garfield said don't wait for something to turn up go out and turn something up take the step before you boldly and Hopefully and the next step will then appear the thing to do is that which lies right before you to be done do it the best you know how feeling assured that in its doing you will be making progress toward the better things for which your heart has been longing new ideas come while you are in action in the doing of things comes the inspiration for

the doing of greater things you can always get a better running start when in action which will Give you an advantage over the best standing start imaginable get into action and motion in this little work we have endeavored to call your attention to something of far greater importance than a mere code of rules and general advice we have pointed out to you the Glorious fact that within each of you there is a something within which if once aroused would give you a greatly increased power and Capacity and so we have tried to tell you this

story of the something within from different viewpoints so that you might catch the idea in several ways we firmly believe that success depends most materially upon a recognition and manifestation of this something within we think that a study of the character and work of all successful men will show you that differ as they do in personal Characteristics they all manifest that consciousness of that something within them that gives them an assurance of inward power and strength from which proceeds courage and self-confidence you will find that the majority of successful men feel that there is a

something helping them back of and behind their efforts some have called this thing by the name of luck or Destiny or some such term but it is all a form of the same Recognition of an inward power backing them up in their Endeavors they feel that they are helped in some way although they are not quite sure of the nature of the helper in fact the majority of them do not stop to speculate upon its nature they are too busy busy and are content with the knowledge that it is there this something within is the

individual the eye in each of them the source of the power which men manifest when they Express it and this little book is written in the hopes that to many it may be the first step toward the recognition unfoldment and manifestation of this inward power we earnestly urge upon you to cultivate this I am Consciousness that you may realize the power within you and then there will come naturally to you the correlated Consciousness which expresses itself in the statement I can and I will one of the grandest Affirmations of power that man can make this

I can and I will Consciousness is that expression of the something within which we trust that you will realize and manifest we feel that behind all the advice that we can give you this one thing is the prime factor in the secret of success I hope that you've enjoyed this presentation and please remember to Subscribe to receive notifications of upcoming recordings this recording is a production of master key Society for the purpose of research study and discussion the views and opinions expressed in this book belong to the author and may not always reflect those of

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