Excerpts from
The Key to Power & Personal Peace
by
Uell S. Anderson

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In the pages of The
Key to Power and Personal Peace, you will learn of the
unlimited power that is yours. You
will learn how
you can turn this power to work for you, here on earth, to make your
life majestic and overflowing with good. The Key to Power is not a
religion or a sect or a society. In its entirety it is a series of
essays aimed at revealing to you your power over all things. You will
learn that there is only one mover in all creation and that mover is
thought. You will learn that there is only one creator and that creator
is the Universal Subconscious Mind, or God. You will learn that this
creator creates for you exactly what you think, and you will be shown
how you can control your thoughts, not only to obtain answers to your
problems but to create in your experience exactly what you desire.
You will not do this in a day or a week or even a month; but do it
you will if you keep heart and keep faith. It requires only a few
minutes of your time each day, a few minutes that will reward you with
greater vistas in life, greater hope and promise than has ever been
dreamed.
There is a cause! There is a reason! There is a power greater than
you are, which you are a part of, which you can use to make your life
good and great and vigorous and full of abundance.
--- excerpt from book's Foreword
Uell
Stanley Andersen's describes methods of attaining personal peace, a
positive attitude and success in a clearcut, easy to understand way. He
handles deep spiritual truths in a simple way with an absolute minimum
of metaphysical jargon. Andersen's philosophy is very enlightened (and
enlightening) and transcends the borders of individual philosophies and
religions. We are presented with a set of ideas that are free of
dogmatism. It soon becomes evident that there is no "brainwashing"
involved , and that the author's conclusions are self-explanatory once
you grasp them.
Chapter
1 - THE
LOCK.............5
Chapter 2 - ILLUSION............25
Chapter 3 - MIND................48
Chapter 4 - FORM................69
Chapter
5 - INTUITION...........93
Chapter
6 - FAITH..............116
Chapter 7 -
ATTRACTION.........142
Chapter
8 - LOVE...............166
Chapter 9 -
SUCCESS............183
Chapter 10 -
HEALTH.............202
Chapter 11 -
IMMORTALITY........220
Chapter 12 - THE
KEY............234
Chapter 1
- THE LOCK
O,
raise up thine eyes to eternal sky
In thy bondage strike
out to be free
Hush the
whispering voice of
the infinite why
With "I am and
I was and I
ever will be."
THE FORGING OF THE LOCK
Somewhere, in some city, town
or hamlet,
there is a child being born.
Somewhere pure spirit is inspired into form. And even now the Lock
takes shape. Mighty is the anvil that forges this Lock, for it is the
memory of the Subconscious Mind. Light, sound, discomfort, pain,
roughness, dampness, hunger, smells—all impinge on subconscious memory,
forging the Lock that bars the door to the infinite.
There
is
something both sad and beautiful about
this—sad because it seems sad to see spirit deny itself—beautiful
because self-determination is beautiful. For this infant, wherever it
is being born at this moment, is free, even as each member of the
entire human race is born free—free to determine his destiny—free to
discover the source of his being and the immensity of his power.
FALSE THOUGHT HABITS
Why
is it, you may well ask yourself, that the great mass of
humanity lead drab and colorless lives, concerned only with fear,
frustration, and insecurity? What, you may well wonder, is the point of
this scheme into which you have been drawn through no volition of your
own and from which you will soon depart, a microbe in a microcosm, a
pinpoint on a pinpoint, a flicker in a flash of light? These thoughts
are products of your Conscious Mind, and it could not be otherwise. For
only the Conscious Mind remembers its beginning and looks forward to
its end.
The
world,
said Wordsworth, is too much with us.
Circumstance shapes our destiny, and this should not be so. There is a
resource which can raise the human soul above all circumstance, but how
few people use it!
Do
you
know this man? John Jones was born in San
Francisco in 1906. His parents were immigrants, and his father was a
laborer. John grew up in modest circumstances and was a child during
the first World War. His father was drafted and killed overseas, and
the burden of support of his mother and two smaller brothers fell
entirely on John's shoulders. Following the line of least resistance,
John became a day laborer. Each week his paycheck went to his mother.
Later, when his brothers were able to contribute to his mother's
support, John continued at his job as a laborer. He was, as he thought,
unable to do anything else, and the full blame for his lost future he
laid at the doorstep of a cruel fate, personified in resentment towards
his mother. When he was forty-two, John developed a brain tumor and
spent the latter years of his life bedridden, partially paralyzed,
dying at the age of forty-eight.
Does
this
sound like one of the children to whom, as
Jesus put it, it is the Father's good pleasure to give the Kingdom?
Does this sound like a free soul expanding into conscious cosmic power?
It most certainly does not. Multiply John Jones by a million and a
million times it does not. Yet John Jones was using the same power as
Einstein, Homer, Plato, Lincoln, Emerson, Buddha, and Jesus.
Thought
habits of the Conscious Mind shaped John
Jones' life. He thought he was hemmed in by circumstance, and so he
became; so that even when the circumstance dissipated of its own
accord, he still could not stir away from his own conception of his position. He harbored a
resentment
toward his
mother until it grew within him, in the form of a tumor, to end his
life; even as he was wishing his life ended through his own attitudes
of defeat.
Conceptual
habits of the Conscious Mind are the greatest
bar to man's discovery of himself.
THE SAME POWER BRINGS BOTH GOOD AND EVIL
If
you
have engaged in competitive athletics, you
have seen a sign on the locker room wall that read, "A team that won't
be beat, can't be beat." And you know that a team that understood the
meaning of that sign was a winner.
If
you are
a business man, you have heard it said,
"Think big, do big." And you know that the men who operate on this
premise do big things.
If
you are
a member of a family, you have seen the
power of faith work miracles—in an illness, in financial insecurity, in
birth, in death, in all of life's events.
If
you are
a member of an organized religion, you
have seen the tremendous power of prayer.
If
you
have ever in your life been faced with a
crisis, you know the calm inner self you have turned to in a flash,
which has rewarded you with an answer in an instant.
Everyone
has experienced this power to some degree.
It is not so securely locked away that each human being does not touch
it during some period of his life. Yet, strange to say, the vast
majority of humanity shrug it off as perhaps only a fortunate
circumstance, a coincidence, a "piece of good luck."
It
is
important for you to remember—every day of
your life—that the same power that brings you good fortune brings you
bad fortune and it does so according to how you use it. The only reason
it brings so little good fortune to the great mass of people is that
they do not know it exists, use it but sparingly, and use it the wrong
way. Their conceptions of themselves are locked in the
Subconscious Mind. And just as surely as the earth rotates, their
futures are mapped out according to these conceptions and thoughts. The
only way they can become free to achieve success and
happiness
and health is to arrive at truth—unlock the Lock—discover the Key!
THE MIND THAT NEVER SLEEPS
Perhaps
you do not know or truly understand that the
mind of man is not alone memory and reason such as he exerts when in a
conscious active state. There is in man a mind that never sleeps, that
is constantly active, with untold reservoirs that have never yet been
plumbed—a mind of such infinite capacity and power that it could not
possibly belong to one man alone. This is the Subconscious Mind, as
sharply delineated from the Conscious Mind.
The
advent
of psychiatry has told us a good deal
about this Subconscious Mind. We know, for instance, that its memory is
perfect—not just for important facts but for every shade and detail and
scene ever experienced. The skilled psychiatrist can run back twenty
years in a patient's Subconscious, eliciting a scene from him when he
was six years old, and lo, the scene unfolds with color, sound, and
detail such as could not be recorded on photographic film. A bird's
song faint on the summer air, the soft rustle of maple leaves drying on
the grass, the distant rumble of a train, the grimace of a countenance,
the movement of a person, words, inflections—all exact even to
emotional impact. And yet here is a scene that the Conscious Mind
had long forgotten.
PROBING THE SUBCONSCIOUS
Psychiatry,
concerned with
restoring people
to mental health, has run back along the time track of the Subconscious
Mind, probing for emotional "sore spots," then exposing them to the
patient's Conscious Mind so that he can rationally judge how trivial
they are. Varying degrees of success have been achieved in the
restoration of mental health by such methods, and certainly enough to
have merited the procedure. Sometimes, alas, disaster has occasioned
when a serious "rejection" of the Conscious Mind has been elicited from
the Subconscious and submitted to the patient, who in terror at this
exposure has lapsed into hysteria or a stony depression, so great have
been the emotional conflicts aroused.
But
this
probing of the Subconscious Mind has
unearthed a vast store of hitherto unknown material. Under deep
hypnosis, patients have described noises and surroundings that could
have been experienced only in the womb. In the same manner, there have
been patients who have described scenes and times that it would have
been impossible for them to know of or witness. A previous life? Some
other person's life? Thought transference? Perhaps the psychiatrist has
occasionally laid it to "static" on the time track of the Subconscious
Mind, but the existence of such phenomena is indisputable.
What
a
powerful stupendous toy this Subconscious Mind
is turning out to be! Games played in parlors are now assembling in the
laboratory. The psychic who can foretell the future, the thought
reader, the hypnotist are falling under the scrutiny of the microscope.
Measured, numbered, weighed, counted, tabulated and cross-tabulated,
they all add up to one thing: The Subconscious Mind is the most
powerful creative instrument in the universe; it spans space and time,
manifests form from substance, reaches out to all knowledge. And it
exists in every man!
THE MASTER AND THE SERVANT
You
might
wonder why, with such an inexhaustible
subject as this, we should concern ourselves with the Conscious Mind at
all—the tiny, insignificant Conscious Mind, that only remembers a very
few years, that only remembers a very few facts, that barely has
learned the rudiments of thought, and indeed is scarcely capable of
dealing with its immediate surroundings.
We
are
concerned because here we are dealing with
master and servant, and startling as it may seem, the tiny, little
Conscious Mind is the master!
It
is
like a button that works a switch, that works a
lever, that starts an engine, that generates electricity, that moves
the world!
The Subconscious Mind does exactly what the Conscious Mind
tells it
to do!
THE PROMPTER—PAIN REJECTION
Herein
lies the problem. No one consciously wants to
be sick. No one consciously wants to be poverty-stricken, unloved,
unsuccessful. It would be impossible to elicit admission from anyone in
the world that he consciously desired these negative things. Yet, if he
has them, just as surely as there is life, he has ordered them
for himself.
He
is the
victim of "Prompters" set into the
Subconscious Mind by the Conscious Mind. These have been buried by the
Conscious Mind, much as a forgetful dog might bury a bone, remembering
neither the place of burial nor even the fact of burial.
These
Prompters in the Subconscious Mind are
responsible for the great hordes of unhappy people who now troop to
psychiatrists. They have spread more mischief for individual lives and
for humanity as a whole than any other single thing. They have given
the world insecurity, hostility, greed, corruption, and hate. They are
broken keys in a divine instrument. They have thrown mankind out of
tune with the Infinite. They are the Lock that bars the door to
self-realization.
For
example, Fred Smith
is an unwanted baby. As an infant, his first searching for love from
his mother meets with complete rejection. To cope with his hurt, Fred
Smith develops an aggressive, arrogant attitude toward life. As he
grows older, he forgets that he ever desired love from his mother at
all. He takes pride in the fact that he needs nobody and nothing to
make him complete, and he runs roughshod over people to attain his
ends. Here is the making of a dictator or a murderer. Fred Smith hates
life because his first reaching for life was rejected. He is simply
rejecting that which first rejected him. He can't help himself.
Consciously, he has long forgotten the cause, but the memory of the
Subconscious Mind is perfect. The pain remembrance or Prompter buried
there will not let him rest.
MAN
AGAINST HIMSELF
The
psychiatrist, as has been pointed out, has faced
up to this problem by running down these Prompters in the Subconscious
Mind and exposing them to the patient. For example, Miss B comes to the
psychiatrist complaining that she has recurrent headaches.
Investigation shows that these headaches always occur when she is
cooking at her gas stove. It also develops that Miss B harbors a fear
of fire. Running back through the subconscious time track, the
psychiatrist discovers that when Miss B was two years old, her mother's
gas stove exploded and in the resultant excitement Miss B's mother
dropped Miss B on her head. Gas—gas explodes—pain in head; this is the
simple subconscious memory that prompts Miss B's headaches whenever she
must work around a gas stove.
Of
course,
the great majority of psychiatric
treatments are not nearly so simple as this. The example is offered
only to show how the existence of Prompters in the Subconscious Mind is
widely recognized and that the damage they can do is unlimited.
Take
the
case of the man or woman who is
poverty-stricken and desires money. No matter what he or she does there
is always the unfailing outcome—little or no money at all. It would
seem to this man or woman that the attainment of a comfortable amount
of money is the most important thing in the world, but no matter the
effort or time expended, only poverty results. Obviously, here is our
Prompter at work. Strange as it may seem, the Prompter may be such a
trivial thing as the subconscious burying of an infant-heard phrase:
"There's never enough to go around." Think of that! The Subconscious
Mind believes there is not enough, and lo, the manifestation of lack
and limitation is all that this particular person can ever encounter.
The
sick
man wants to be well. That he cannot be well
is evidence only of a Prompter. In this case the Subconscious Mind
harbors such a phrase as "There's so much sickness in the world" or "I
could have done better but I'm sick" or "You know, there are millions
of dangerous microbes all around us." What chance has a person to be
healthy with subconscious Prompters such as these?
The
lonely
person desires love and friends. Yet no
matter the circumstance, he or she cannot seem to attract either a
loved one or a social circle. There is a Prompter in this person that
repels love, such as "Nobody ever did anything for me," "You can't
trust anyone," or "People are just out to get what they can out of
you." Or even worse, the Prompter may set up a sense of inferiority,
such as "You're not good enough," "You don't amount to anything," or
"Nobody loves you." Powerful Subconscious Mind! It manifests these
beliefs into actuality.
Who
can be
successful with a subconscious Prompter
that keeps convincing him that everyone is better than he? Who can
achieve anything with a Prompter that convinces him that all
achievement is worthless? Who can rise to heights with a Prompter that
has him believing that he has no capability? The answer is no one. For
the Subconscious Mind is the great creator, and it creates exactly what
it is prompted to create.
SELF-MASTERY
Happily,
you can remove each of these insidious
Prompters yourself. What's more, you can, by understanding the laws and
dynamics of life, remove the cause of them, so that they will plague
you no more.
This
reassuring fact we place before you; Nothing is impossible to the
mind of man, for the Conscious Mind controls the Subconscious Mind and
the Subconscious Mind is all-powerful.
Every
condition, circumstance, and manifestation of
your life can be changed to suit your conscious desires.
The
commandments are only two: Know that fear is your
enemy; and Understand the Lock.
For
fear
causes the Lock, and the Lock exists in the
Subconscious Mind in the form of Prompters, placed there by the
Conscious Mind.
Today,
with this first chapter, we ask you to begin
to undo the Lock. We ask you to eradicate from your mind all notion of
yourself that has to do with where you live, where you were born, what
you have done, and what your circumstances have been. We ask you to
concentrate on only one thing and that is the spirit within you.
This
real
you, this conscious hidden intelligence
that exists behind your eyes, is timeless, formless, and built from all
the glory and magnificence that ever was. It is not a name or a job or
a home; indeed it has nothing to do with circumstance or situation. The
plain fact is that you exist. Dwell on that, nothing more.
I
am.
Two
more
magnificent words were never put together. I am. This minute. This
now.
All the time that ever was.
ONLY ONE MIND AND YOU MUST USE IT
You
are
pure spirit, cast into human mold as a
manifestation of divine intelligence, existing this little while on
earth to help carry on the divine plan. Being pure spirit, you are a
part of the only intelligence there is, and all the power and
understanding of this intelligence are yours to draw upon.
There
is
only one intelligence, one mind in all
creation, and everyone is a part of it. Thought transference,
hypnotism, clairvoyance are only a few examples of the fact that we all
are using one mind. Every book has been written by the same author,
every building and bridge built by the same engineer, every picture
painted by the same artist, every sonnet composed by the same poet, all
music conceived by the same musician. You and your neighbor, us,
everybody, one. That is the way it is.
The
Universal Mind that flows through everyone knows
no limitation or lack, and nothing is impossible to it. Its great
dominant characteristic is creativeness. Since it is all knowledge and
all substance and all power, indeed the only thing it does is create. And
it creates exactly what the mind of each individual person thinks into
it.
Now
we are
not discussing something that you can
either use or not use as you see fit. We are discussing something that
you use every day of your life, that you can't help using because it is
a part of you, in fact, is altogether the real you.
This
Universal Mind knows no big or little, rich or
poor, great or insignificant. It gives of itself according to need, and
it creates according to desire. It is creating for you right now
exactly what you are thinking into it!
Construe
this mind, if you will, as a great plastic
medium containing all energy, all knowledge, and all substance.
Conceive of it as a medium responsive only to thought and responsive in
degree and time according to how such thought is sped with conviction.
We
might
then have a simple formula like this.
Thought plus Conviction equals Manifestation.
There
is
manifested in your experience exactly that
which you are convinced of!
However,
even though our Conscious Minds desire
success, if our subconscious Prompters believe it to be impossible,
then our emotional thought is all aimed at failure, and failure will
result.
The
Lock
that forbids achievement and happiness is
the existence in the mind of subconscious Prompters that make
automatons out of free persons.
EXPOSING THE SUBCONSCIOUS
Though
hypnotism as a science is in its infancy, it
illustrates perfectly the remarkable power of the Subconscious Mind and
how it operates entirely by suggestion.
The
hypnotist, through his methods of putting the
Conscious Mind to sleep, simply removes the control which the
Conscious
Mind exerts over the Subconscious Mind. The patient, when under
hypnotic sleep, acts on every suggestion of the hypnotist as if it were
truth, for the hypnotist has now taken the place of the Conscious Mind.
The hypnotist says, "You have no feeling in your right arm," and
forthwith the patient has no feeling in his right arm. So deep, in
fact, is this anesthetic that it far outdoes any drug known to science.
The hypnotist may say to the patient, "When you wake up, I am going to
count to ten, and as I count, you will gradually lose your hearing, so
that when I get to ten you will be able to hear nothing at all. When I
start counting backwards from ten, you will gradually regain your
hearing, so that when I arrive at one, your hearing will be fully
restored."
This
is
post-hypnotic suggestion. The patient is
awakened, the hypnotist counts to ten, and the patient gradually loses
his hearing. At ten, a gun is fired behind the patient, and not a
single tremor indicates that he has heard. When the hypnotist counts
backwards from ten, the patient's hearing is fully restored.
This
is
the mighty Subconscious Mind at work! This is
but one small example of the miracles you can perform for yourself. For
you, your Conscious Mind can take the place of the hypnotist, and your
power is magnified a thousand times because you are working toward your
own desires.
DISSOLVING YOUR NEGATIVE PROMPTERS
First,
however, we must be concerned with removing
all negative Prompters from the Subconscious Mind and installing in
their stead a group of positive Prompters which will lead us in the
path of attainment and happiness.
We
need
not remove these negative Prompters as an
especial procedure. Since positive will override negative, all that is
necessary is for us to install in the Subconscious a group of positive
Prompters. The existence of these will dissipate all negative Prompters
and allow the individual to expand to the full blossom of his power.
For
example, if you are consistently sick, it is a
long way toward recovery to search the Subconscious Mind for the
Prompter that is causing your sickness. Rather, it is best to install a
Prompter that says that it is natural to be well, that health and vigor
are birthrights of mankind, that you exist in a spiritual medium that
is perfect, and that your body as a manifestation of this perfect
medium is perfect also. Once this positive Prompter is thoroughly
installed in the Subconscious, the negative "Sick Prompter" will wither
and disappear.
It
is, of
course, a great aid in this therapy to
understand the origination of all negative circumstance in your life,
the cause of all sin and punishment, for heaven and hell are within
you, and reward and punishment are simply cause and effect in your use
of the great spiritual laws that govern all life.
INTUITION
It
has
long been established that the principal
compartments of the human mind consist of Memory, Reason, and
Imagination. These three mental factors, however, when added together
have failed to yield the mystical whole of the human personality,
leading psychologists to believe that all the factors of the human mind
were not being studied. For some time past, an additional factor has
come under laboratory scrutiny—the factor of Intuition, the ability of
a number of individuals to know the correct answer to a problem without
being versed in the parts of the problem. It has been discovered that
not all persons are so gifted, or rather that not all persons are
intuitively "awakened," but where such an awakening exists, Reason and
Memory have flouted all measurement.
Intuition,
then, is a compartment of the human mind.
FAITH
Still
a
fifth compartment of the human mind is only
now achieving widespread recognition, even though ancient philosophers
long ago proclaimed it to be the most important of all. This is the
compartment of Faith.
See
how
common these quotations are: "Faith can move
mountains," "As ye believe, so shall it be done unto you," "Think big,
do big." And yet, even though these written revelations are as old as
recorded history, the world has blithely gone its way, disregarding
them.
How
many
of them we have chalked up to coincidence!
There was the neighbor who rubbed a rag across the wart on your finger,
buried the rag and informed you that when the rag rotted the wart would
disappear. You believed it, and the wart disappeared. A coincidence,
your adult mind says, because your education tells you that there is no
way a rotting rag could possibly affect the existence of a wart. With
such a conclusion you are looking in the wrong direction, for it wasn't
the rag but the Faith that caused the wart to disappear!
Consider
the life of Jesus. There can be no doubt but that this enlightened man
was preaching to the world of the magnitude
of his discovery of Faith. Through revelation, intuition,
enlightenment, attunement with the infinite, Jesus knew as perhaps no
one before or after him of the unlimited power of Faith. Through it he
worked his miracles of healing and spiritual understanding.
Such
miracles as the Bible discloses are happening
every day of our modern life. A patient suffering with cancer of the
throat was informed of a new X-ray machine that would cure his
condition. This man could neither read nor write, nor was he informed
about any of the instruments or procedures of medical practice. When he
first sat down in the doctor's office and received into his mouth a
thermometer with which the doctor sought to take his temperature, he
believed he was undergoing X-ray treatment. The doctor, alert to the
practices of psychology, recognized this, and after leaving the
thermometer in the patient's mouth for ten minutes, excused him and
told him to return in two days. Three weeks of treatment with a
thermometer cured this patient's cancerous condition! Obviously, it
wasn't the thermometer that did it. It was Faith!
Here
then
is the human mind as we find it today.
Principal conscious compartments consist of Memory, Reason, and
Imagination. Conscious memory is the ability to recall the past, while
subconscious memory is perfect and contains the Prompters which have
been placed there as pain rejections of the Conscious Mind. Intuition
is a characteristic of the Subconscious Mind, a phenomenon attributable
to a contact made by the Conscious Mind with the Subconscious Mind.
Faith, the mover of mountains, the worker of miracles, is the Conscious
Mind acting on the Subconscious Mind. Memory, Reason, Imagination,
Intuition, Faith: these equal the Human Mind.
For
the
purposes of what we have to learn here, we
need concern ourselves only with Intuition and Faith, for by Faith we
will overcome the Lock, and through Intuition we will contact the
infinite.
Nothing
is
impossible to the human mind when the Lock
is removed. Ships, planes, electricity, radar, rocket power,
automobiles, engines, electronics, atomic power have all been the
result of thought. Thought is the great creator, master and mother of
the universe, God in man, the infinite in the immediate. And there is
no end to individual power through the right use of thought.
Thought
plus Faith — Creator.
But
before
we can truly use or understand this great
creator, we must first understand the Lock that bars us from its proper
use.
Man
is
pure spirit, in essence a part of God, in
actuality a manifestation of the infinite. As such, man is perfect but
temporal. His earthly existence is a matter of a moment, his form is
ever changing. In this earthly form, his spirit undergoes
a sense of isolation and personal responsibility, which in his daily
material life causes emotions of insecurity and isolation and
frustration. These memories of insecurity, isolation, and frustration
are unbearable to his Conscious Mind, his material mind, and he rejects
them, hiding them within his subconscious memory where they act as
Prompters of limitation, lack, illness, etc. These subconscious
Prompters act as a bar to the door of the infinite, keeping man from
full contact with the power of the great Universal Mind in which he
lives, moves, and has his being.
The
complete removal of all negative Prompters in the
mind, full contact with the infinite, complete recognition of the
spiritual laws and the spiritual nature of mankind are the sum and
substance of human existence and provide the path mankind treads on its
journey toward God.
I AM WILL
NOT BE
DENIED
It is possible
that you
will be unready to accept with
this first chapter the complete realization of your own divine origin
and power. Perhaps the subconscious Prompters in your own mind are now
urging you to the conclusion that you are an insignificant bit of
matter, accidentally sprung to life in a chaotic universe, without
cause, without reason, without destiny, without power. Yet inside you,
a still small voice knows the truth, and no matter the strength of your
rebellion away from your true self, the fact of your spiritual
existence, the great I AM, will not be denied. Have no fear, then, that
you will be lost. If, in this first chapter, there are statements made
and conclusions drawn with which you cannot find yourself in complete
agreement, it is only because you are now contacting those hidden
truths that may not be learned without struggle. This, you have in
store for you: These chapters are not merely expositions; they are
demonstrations. You will be given things to do, experiments to conduct,
proofs to achieve that will convince you beyond all shadow of doubt
that there is a power far greater than you and which you can use to
make your life happy and fulfilled. The understanding of this power
within yourself will expand your life to new and exciting horizons,
will embark you upon the greatest adventure it is possible to know.
THE RESULT
OF SELF-KNOWINGNESS
Take
for
instance your body. According to
measurement, it is short, tall, slender, heavy, handsome, dainty,
rugged, strong, or weak. Within the scope of these measurements, you
have established to yourself in some degree what kind of person you
are. When you first came into self-consciousness in this life, your
body was with you. You didn't order it. You didn't go to the great
Tailor and say, "Make me a body with two arms and two legs and two eyes
and two ears and a nose and a mouth, and make it better-looking than
other bodies, and make it stronger than any other bodies, and make it
so it won't wear out." If you had, you probably would have placed just
such an order, but you didn't have the chance. Your body was ordered
for you. You possessed it in an infant state and grew within it, even
as it grew around you. The spirit clothed itself with a gown of flesh!
The
result
of all self-knowingness is form, and so
your form, or body, is the result of your knowing yourself, being aware
of yourself. Your body is an embodiment of life, is an expression of
life, for through your body your spirit expresses Itself.
It
matters
not the form of your body, for it is
perfect, even as the spirit within it is perfect. It is a perfect
instrument for the expression of your spirit, and only the misuse of
spiritual law can cast from it its perfection. All illness and disease
is thus the result of the misuse of spiritual law and the lack of
spiritual understanding. For God is perfect, spirit is perfect, and the
body that expresses them must be perfect.
The
answer
to why you and your body came into
existence is as simple as knowing yourself. You, as spirit, are eternal
and never came into existence. Your body is simply a manifestation of
your spirit, a changing form made from eternal substance,
even as all form must change. It is difficult
to analyze and probe this mystery with the Conscious Mind, but it is
relatively simple to demonstrate to the Conscious Mind the existence of
Infinite spiritual power.
THE ELUSIVE INFINITE
Man's
words and conceptions, with which he
demonstrates his earthly control, are hardly adequate in tackling the
realms of the spirit.
Take
the
word infinite. Man has decided that infinite
means never-ending. He understands a straight line. He claims to
understand an infinitely long straight line. Yet if you were to take
two crossed lines, infinitely long, and attempt to uncross them, you
would find that, as you moved them away from each other, the point at
which they were crossed moved farther and farther away from you. But
since the lines never ended, they could never be uncrossed! You could,
at the point you were grasping them, be holding them parallel to each
other, and still they would not be uncrossed, even though they were
straight lines!
Obviously
the Conscious Mind, in its measurements and
numbers, is scarcely capable
of dealing with the infinite.
Again
take
man's conception of time, a matter of the
earth's revolution on its axis and its path about the sun, a matter of
seconds and minutes and hours and days and months and years and
centuries. Time, you might say, is as fixed a conception as there could
possibly be, an unvarying measurement.
Yet,
in
human experience, it has long been established
that a second can be as long as a minute, an hour as long as a day.
Einstein, in his Theory of Relativity, has expressed in the
language of science the variability of time. Essentially, he has shown
that the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second, is in man's
conception infinitely fast. For at the speed of light, a mass would be
infinitely big, and time would stand still. On the basis of this
theory, it has been worked out that a space ship traveling 185,999.9
miles per second could circumnavigate the universe in a period of time
that would be thirty years to the occupants of such a ship. Yet, to
those on the earth, the space ship would be gone 10,000,000 years!
Yet,
despite conceptual inadequacies, science has
proven that every physical law of the universe has a corresponding
spiritual law.
Science
has shown us that matter and energy are one,
that even the heaviest and sturdiest materials are simply a collection
of free-moving molecules banging against each other, moving at
tremendous speeds. Through the use of the spectroscope, elements have
been discovered on far-flung planets that weigh as much as a hundred
tons per cubic inch! Electronics may one day transmit masses around the
world in a fraction of a second, even as pictures are now being
transmitted! Certainly this is no age in which to hold the idea that
anything in the way of bridging space and time and form is impossible
to the mind or the spirit of man.
THE
CHALLENGE OF THE INVISIBLE
There
have
been, in the records of history, many
enlightened men; teachers, scientists, spiritual advisers, and poets;
and each of them has had this thing to say in common: There is a great
medium of mind and intelligence that is in and surrounds every human
being. This intelligence is all-intelligence and knows and does
everything. This intelligence, God, is an eternal creator, creating
that which the mind of man thinks.
A
doctor
whose professed views on life were on a
strictly material plane has said, "I have cut many a body open and I
have never found a soul." To which it has been answered, "Undoubtedly
true, but while you were there, did you ever find a thought?"
The invisible plane of human existence offers the greatest
challenge
and the greatest hope for all mankind!
A young
woman, born and raised
in the
United States, not able to read or write and speaking only the English
language, was sitting in the front room with her father not many years
ago, when through the front door came a long-time friend of her
father's who had just arrived from Greece. At the sight of him, the
young woman rose from her seat and began speaking rapidly to him in his
native tongue, a language she had never heard nor studied! The man from
Greece broke down and wept, for the young woman had just informed him
that his wife, back in Greece, had died!
Subsequent
checking proved this young woman's
revelation to be true. She had circumvented the barriers of space,
time, and language to reveal this tragedy to this gentleman she had
never seen before!
Another
woman, whose contact with the universal
intelligence was acute, was able to provoke physical occurrence through
nothing but thought. In demonstration, under the surveillance of a
group of highly trained scientific minds, she activated through nothing
but thought, a light switch over which a soap bubble had been placed.
The switch was turned on, the bubble remained unbroken!
THE TRUTH
LIES IN LOOKING INWARD
So
great
is the new-found, newly recognized power of
thought that groups are organizing throughout the world, aiming at the
creation of peace through thought power. What else is this but prayer?
What else is this but the transmission of desire into the creative mind
of the universe? Done correctly and with power it must succeed!
The
responsiveness of Universal Mind to thought has
long been beautifully taught by Dr. Ernest Holmes and his Institute of
Religious Science in Los Angeles. Dr. Holmes has authored a number of
fine books on the healing power of positive beliefs, and maintains at
his institute a spiritual treatment clinic that makes miracles an
everyday occurrence. Yet Dr. Holmes smiles when they are called
miracles. "They're only the use of the Law of Mind in Action," he says.
"Change the idea of a thing, and you change the thing. It's that
simple."
This
great plastic creative medium, this Subconscious
Mind, this mind of the universe in which there is all
knowledge, all wisdom, and all power, is ours to use every day that we
live. We are using it now; we can't help using it. We are using it in
such degree and in such manner as we understand it; and more often than
not we are using it in such a manner as to create unhappy circumstance
and situation, delaying if not forbidding the realization of our own
God-given divinity.
It
is our
purpose here to impart understanding of the
great intelligence to which you belong, to point out the errors of
thought and the false circumstances that have locked you away from
self-realization.
This
locked-in viewpoint, this limitation we impose
upon ourselves must be dissipated. We have looked around us at the
material world, made judgments about things and people and then imposed
those judgments upon ourselves. By looking outward we have
achieved what we believe to be knowledge about ourselves, and this is
falsity of the very highest degree.
COMPETITION
VERSUS CREATIVENESS
If
you
were to take an average person living in the
United States of America, and ask him, "Who are you?" he would answer
with either his name or his job or both. Similarly, he has an
impression of his own success, his own wealth, his own ability, and his
own desirability, which he has gained not from looking within but from comparing
himself with those around him.
The
essence of mankind is not competition; it is creativeness. In
all this world there is not another you, nor has there
ever been
another you. Is it not ridiculous to attempt to mold yourself into a
likeness of your fellows, to attempt to undo the work that God has
done? For you, as an especial part of the universal intelligence, are
manifested here on this earth in the form you now occupy to do work
that only you can do! No matter how humble your job may seem, no matter
how unprepossessing your position in life, take heart! The universe has
sired no other person like you. Only you can be you.
Only
you can draw upon the infinite for
those divine powers that are yours.
There
is a
fine line of demarcation between
competition and creativeness in the minds of everyone today. Yet they
are black and white, complete opposites on the polar scale. Competition
attempts to be like. Creativeness attempts to be unlike. Competition
casts all humanity into the same mold. Creativeness makes of each man
an individual counterpart of God.
Competition
exists on the plane that makes you want
to have a better home than Jack Smith, a better car than Jack Smith, a
better job than Jack Smith. It leads you into the suffocating trap of
not wanting the different but wanting the same, only better. It imposes
upon you a scale of values that is not your own but belongs to a group.
Creativeness,
on the other hand, is a world all your
own. If you were to take brush and palette in hand right now and paint
a picture in oils, the result—good, bad, or indifferent by the world's
standards—would be all your own. The finest artist living could not
copy it exactly. Does not this prove there is no other you?
Conformity and competition are death knells to the spirit. Creativeness
and non-conformity are an expansion into cosmic understanding.
ENLIGHTENMENT
Your
security in life depends entirely on your
recognition of your divine nature. Money, home, insurance policies, and
position are like wraiths in the night. There are no banks in the
hereafter, nor pockets in a coffin. All the things of the world change;
they are born, they blossom, they bear fruit, and they die. Only the
great unity—your own association with the infinite, your own individual
manifestation of the Universal Mind of God—only that is changeless.
Your recognition and use of this great truth will provide you with such
security as you have never dreamed, will cast into proper perspective
every aspect of your life, will unloose in you such a flood of creative
energy as to fill your life to brimming with success, accomplishment,
and vigor.
There
is a
Key to this attainment. Could we but break
down the barriers established by your Conscious Mind, remove your
Prompters with but a word, the Key could be given to you now and your
life would be changed this moment. But the Conscious Mind acting in
accord with the insidious Prompters is strong. Only hundreds of pages
of discourse and proof will weaken its prejudice. Only diligent daily
application of the principles of this book will finally dissipate all
doubt. For Faith is the great mover, the father of all creation.
With
each
chapter you will develop your powers of
Faith and Intuition. There will come a time, an hour, perhaps a moment,
when you will feel a flash inside you, when suddenly all the world will
assume a shape and a mold that will seem divinely inspired for you
alone.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
In
the
meantime, you must go step by step. There is
no quick, easy road to anything worthwhile. Take from this first
chapter the principal points covered and record them indelibly in your
memory. They are:
1.
There
is a power, greater than you are, which you
can use to make your life vibrant, successful, and happy.
2.
This
power is the Universal Creative Mind, the
Subconscious Mind, and you are using it now; you can't help using it.
3.
All of
us live and move and have our beings in the
great intelligence that makes up the universe and the world.
4.
This
Universal Mind is responsive to thought. It
creates what is projected into it.
5.
The
reason our conscious desires do not always
manifest themselves in reality is twofold: 1) We are not projecting our
thoughts with conviction. 2) There are Prompters in the Subconscious
Mind which cause our thinking to go astray.
6.
The
Prompters in the Subconscious Mind make up
the Lock which bars us from proper use of the great power of the
infinite.
7.
These
Prompters are rejections of the Conscious
Mind, buried in the Subconscious and long forgotten. They are primarily
pain experiences, and thus are primarily negative, attracting and
creating lack and limitation and disease and unhappiness.
8. This
Lock, these Prompters, can be removed by
understanding, study, and application of the great laws of spirit.
THE HIGH ADVENTURE
It
is
always necessary to understand something about
a lock before you can use the key. It is equally important to
understand a good deal about the key before you can use it to open the
lock. In this first chapter, you have encountered the basic elements of
the Lock that keeps you from enjoying but a small fraction of your
God-like given power. Certain elements of the Key to the Lock have been
discussed. In the following chapters, you will arrive at a complete
understanding of the Lock and a complete understanding of the Key; so
that you will, without further help, be able to embark upon the most
productive and happy and vital years of your life. And you are not
likely to ever again meet with such high adventure as you study and
experiment with your own divine nature, as you discover for yourself
the great source of power and wisdom that exists within you.
DON'T ARGUE WITH YOURSELF
Subsequent
chapters will cover such subjects as
Illusion, Mind, Form, Faith, Intuition, Love, Success, Health,
Attraction and Immortality. The final chapter, THE KEY will
reveal a great metaphysical secret.
Throughout
the book we will undertake the study of
Hypnotism, Thought Transference, and Clairvoyance, and we will show how
they are all products of the vast power of the Universal Subconscious
Mind.
Enlightenment,
however, is not going to be as simple
as just reading the chapters. You must devote at least ten minutes
daily to the practice of what you have learned, for only with this
cooperation and effort can the rewards of self-realization be achieved.
We
ask you
to spend ten minutes daily in meditation,
projecting your thoughts into the creative Subconscious Mind, so that
they can manifest into actuality. These meditation periods are designed
to accomplish a purpose, to prove to you that you can achieve your
desires through the proper use of mental law. Of course, if you spend
ten minutes each day saying "yes" and the other twenty-three hours and
fifty minutes saying "no," the "no" will result. Obviously, the only
way the "yes" can be manifested is when you do more affirming than
denying. The Subconscious Mind always acts—and it acts on
the most predominant thought. Therefore, commit the meditation to
memory or carry it with you. Throughout the day, when circumstances
appear to be negative, when disillusionment, depression, or
discouragement knock at the door of your consciousness, simply bring
the meditation to your mind and say it over to yourself. The simple
saying of the words will immediately restore your peace and confidence.
You
must
understand that as a human soul you can't
quit using the law. You can't help using it a single minute of any day
of your life. You're using it now. If you decide that you cannot
achieve success, health, happiness, and peace of mind,—then failure,
illness, unhappiness and confusion are yours. For the law still works,
and you can't stop it from working!
The
only
question you have to answer is whether you
desire good or evil, for the law must bring you one or the other,
according to your desire.
MEDITATION—MANIFESTATION
"In
the
beginning, the word," and so it is with all
creation, for the word is the thought. Speaking the word with
conviction and maintaining that conviction with faith is the complete
chain of manifestation from the thought to the thing.
The
first
meditation, which is given at the end of
this chapter, is designed to put you in contact with the Universal
Subconscious Mind, to provide you with a sense of peace, power and
security, for only with this sense of the absolute can you go through
the entire book to complete self-realization and unlimited power.
Subsequent meditations will aim at achieving specific results in the
realms of success, accomplishment, money, health, love and happiness.
During
your meditation periods, you must be alone.
You must be in a place of quiet and solitude, undisturbed by other
voices or the movements of other people. You must set your mind at
rest, forgetting for the moment all cares and problems and people. You
must let go—let go of everything you know except self.
When
you
feel calm and peaceful, you will know that
you are in contact with the Universal Mind. Then, and only then, speak
the meditation aloud. But don't simply speak it. Understand it, feel
it, project it. It will manifest for you in actuality.
RECOMMENDED
READING
The
Man
Who Knew by Ralph Waldo Trine.
FIRST MEDITATION
I know that I am pure spirit, that I always
have
been, and that I always will be. There is inside me a place of
confidence and quietness and security where all things are known and
understood. This is the Universal Mind, God, of which I am a part and
which responds to me as I ask of it. This universal mind knows the
answer to all of my problems, and even now the answers are speeding
their way to me. I needn't struggle for them; I needn't worry or strive
for them. When the time comes, the answers will be there. I give my
problems to the great mind of God; I let go of them, confident that the
correct answers will return to me when they are needed. Through the
great law of attraction, everything in life that I need for my work and
fulfillment will come to me. It is not necessary that I strain about
this, only believe. For in the strength of my belief, my faith will
make it so. I see the hand of divine intelligence all about me, in the
flower, the tree, the brook, the meadow. I know that the intelligence
that created all these things is in me and around me and that I can
call upon it for my slightest need. I know that my body is a
manifestation of pure spirit and that spirit is perfect; therefore my
body is perfect also. I enjoy life, for each day brings a constant
demonstration of the power and wonder of the universe and myself. I am
confident. I am serene. I am sure. No matter what obstacle or
undesirable circumstance crosses my path, I refuse to accept it, for it
is nothing but illusion. There can be no obstacle or undesirable
circumstance to the mind of God, which is in me, and around me, and
serves me now.
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